A friend asked an interesting question. He was telling me about how
his Apache logs are nailing his hard drive and was wondering if there
is a way for syslog to cache log data before writing it to disk. There
are methods such as ramlog which will create a ramdisk at startup and
then mount it at /var/log only writing to disk at system shutdown.
This would be a kludgy solution as it would require a cron job to shut
down the service before it became full forcing it to write the log
data to disk and then restarting it. There are too many variables in
that solution.

Does syslog or syslog-ng have such an option? I Googled around but
came up empty.

-Mathew
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