Limiting the size of syslogd output files using options in syslog.conf

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <bf597c3830ebabbef6ac422a5d648e1eed13fac5.camel at freebsd.org>, Ian Le
pore writes:
>I've posted a review of a small syslogd change which lets you set a
>limit on the size of syslogd output files in /etc/syslog.conf.  The
>idea is to prevent filling up a filesystem on emmc or sdcard or other
>small storage device on an embedded system with unexpected logging
>triggered by some error or failing hardware.

You should consider fifolog(1) in such environments.


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