[rsyslog] ringbuffer log destination

[Patrick T. Tsang]

Hello,

This is a very great idea. 
would it be possible to work with logrotate?

thanks


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "seth vidal" <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>
To: <rsyslog at lists.adiscon.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:53 PM
Subject: [rsyslog] ringbuffer log destination


> Would it be possible/easy to setup a ringbuffer log destination? Like
> dmesg under linux it would be very useful to me to have a ringbuffer
> log. On my laptop, for example, I don't often need more than the last
> 30-60 minutes of logs for fixing problems. And it'd make it more
> possible to have limited logs if we could do something in rsyslog like:
> 
> *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none  ringbuffer(/var/log/messages,
> 8192)
> 
> I was actually thinking about using an SD card or usb key as my 'hard
> drive' and I want to limit unnecessary writes. So, if I could log
> to /dev/shm and limit the total size of the logs via ringbuffer to 10M
> or 20M then I'd not eat up much memory and none of the writes would be
> to media with a limited write count.
> 
> Would this be something you'd consider adding? Or maybe I've not looked
> hard enough and it's available now?
> 
> Thanks,
> -sv
> 
> 
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