Re: svlogd: blocking on ENOSPC

[Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:00:29PM +0100, Csillag Tam?s wrote:
> On 10/18, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> > Here's a patch that makes svlogd remove the oldest of rotated log
> > files in the log directory in case the disk is full.  In the worst
> > case only the current logfile will be left.  I would be interested
> > in your opinions.
> Interesting, It would be nice as a command line switch like '-d' (or
> maybe even better another line in config?) So the admin can decide
> what is more important to keep the service always up or to be sure the
> logs are preserved.
> 
> If you turn on debugging on one service (e.g. openldap) it is better
> to remove only it's logs and not the others (e.g. auth logs).
> 
> What do you think?

I think it should be a line starting with ``N'' in the config file to
optionally specify the minimum number of older log files to be kept in
case the filesystem is full.  By default it's equal to the maximum
number of files.

Regards, Gerrit.