Re: CLOG support in syslogd

At 2:39 PM -0400 10/28/04, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>At 2:41 PM +0200 10/28/04, Emiel Kollof wrote:
>>Op donderdag 28 oktober 2004, schreef Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai:
>>  > -On [20041028 02:52], Scott Ullrich ([e-mail]) wrote:
>>  > > This would allow someone to set the size of a log file and syslogd
>>  > > would automatically keep the file size from growing larger than
>>  > > specified.
>>  >
>>>  How is this different from the size column in /etc/newsyslog.conf?
>>
>>newsyslog is run from cronjob and can not ensure that the log
>>size stays below  the value in newsyslogd.conf. AFAICT this can.
>
>If I recall correctly, Wes Peters was interested in doing something
>similar with syslogd in FreeBSD.

After re-reading the original message in this thread, I realize that
I misunderstood what the change was.  This is not the same idea as
the one Wes was thinking of for syslog in FreeBSD.

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