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List:       syslog-ng
Subject:    Re: [syslog-ng] Circular File Output
From:       Kevin <kkadow () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-06-29 21:33:42
Message-ID: dc718edc0606291433m131b04a3v85c781457c54e1ff () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 6/29/06, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:46:01 EDT, Kenneth Kassing said:
> >  To this end, I must maintain very small log files.  I have
> > looked into log rotation, but do not wish to take the crond /
> > logrotate approach.

You might want to look at how DJB solved this in daemontools,
via the "multilog" program, http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html
See the section on "Automatically rotated logs".

If you want to experiment with multilog, you can call it from syslog-ng
as a 'program' destination.

Kevin
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