Hello, This is a very great idea. would it be possible to work with logrotate?
thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "seth vidal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:53 PM Subject: [rsyslog] ringbuffer log destination > Would it be possible/easy to setup a ringbuffer log destination? Like > dmesg under linux it would be very useful to me to have a ringbuffer > log. On my laptop, for example, I don't often need more than the last > 30-60 minutes of logs for fixing problems. And it'd make it more > possible to have limited logs if we could do something in rsyslog like: > > *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none ringbuffer(/var/log/messages, > 8192) > > I was actually thinking about using an SD card or usb key as my 'hard > drive' and I want to limit unnecessary writes. So, if I could log > to /dev/shm and limit the total size of the logs via ringbuffer to 10M > or 20M then I'd not eat up much memory and none of the writes would be > to media with a limited write count. > > Would this be something you'd consider adding? Or maybe I've not looked > hard enough and it's available now? > > Thanks, > -sv > > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog
