Re: Adding sanity to OE startup process

Hello Rod,

Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 9:53:10 AM, you wrote:

> Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>>   I expected SlugOS project to be important
stakeholder for such
>> changes, so I appreciate your response, Rob! I had
a look at
>> slugos-init's syslog handling, and for sure it
looks well done and
>> should be generalized to the whole OE.

> Thanks.  It was mostly done by John Bowler.  Any bugs
introduced since
> then are my responsibility 

>>   I guess, at this point, I should just play with
it to understand
>> how it works better (for example, a question I have
in mind: each of
>> syslog.{buffer, file, network} appears to just run
syslogd with new
>> commandline params, not restart it or send signal;
is this reliable
>> (e.g. documented)? Well, as I tell, I should try it
myself first I
>> guess.)

> Good question.  I thought that only *one* of them would
get started,
> based on the contents of the destination field in
/etc/sysconf.conf at
> boot.  Is that not what you're seeing?

        Sorry, for delay, due to approaching of 2.6.22 merge
window, I
work mostly on HH.org kernel now, but yesterday finally
found time to
play with this issue.

        So yes, I see that the idea after all is log to only
one
destination, just start logging as soon as possible for
that
destination. I just had in mind something what Koen
mentioned: start
logging to buffer ASAP, then later switchover to file if
needed, then
to network if needed. Well, that's of course more of
advanced feature.

        Also, confirmed that file log rotation works at
least with
busybox 1.2.1. Cleaned up syslogd.conf fixed to not contain
confusing
statements this is not supported, committed. Koen, what do
you think
about switching Angstrom's default setting to
/var/log/messages after
this, to make it easier for non-busybox people? After all,
main
trouble with file logging is now fixed - it cannot grow
unlimited in
size.


> -- Rod


-- 
Best regards,
 Paul                            mailto:pmiscmlgmail.com


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