On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Bill Carlson wrote:
> Ok, finally a mention of WHICH syslog. Is that most people's
> experience, a problem with syslog on Solaris 2.x? I've run mostly
> Linux boxen over the years and have had little trouble with sysklogd,
> the daemon included with Redhat installations. But then, I tend to use
> a log host that is on an isolated, private LAN; UDP doesn't really
> bother me.
the version which ships with solaris (and SUNos) doesn't have the ability
to disable sync-to-disk on every log write (that i could find). I also
looked into ssylogd and nsyslogd: although they ran fine for UDP-logging
they didn't work properly for system logging and I didn't have a spare
solaris box to run one on really long term for serious debugging.
The LINUX syslogd has the same problems that the solaris one has with
respect to performance when writing to the logfiles (namely the fsync()
after every write) but this can be disabled by putting a '-' in front of
the filename like this:
mail.* -/var/log/maillog
RjL
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