Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Feb 1999 11:32:40 -0500 (EST) | From | David Feuer <> | Subject | Re: fsync on large files |
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On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Billy Harvey wrote:
> > > >Disable fsync()ing in > > > >syslogd by prepending "-" to each log file you want to turn it off for. > > > > > > But syslogd > > > syncs every line written for a good reason, namely that if the machine > > > crashes you don't want to lose the last few lines that were logged. > > > > There's a fair chance you'll lose the lines you're really interested in if > > you crash anyway - as you've noticed, syncing is a sometimes an intensive > > operation. A _real_ fix, which also deals with log security issues nicely, > > is to log across a serial port to a secure (possibly non-networked) host. > > Why not modify the log rotation scripts to run on an hourly basis, and > throw away those older than <insert preference here>? This should be > fairly painless, and a quick fix. > > Billy > -- > info@RhinoEngineering.com
What does log rotation have to do with syncing? If I were really concerned about logs, I'd log to a printer ;).
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