From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Bayer Subject: Re: Digi-ned output file and logrotate Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:24:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Jim Bayer Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org Bill, You can configure logrotate to rotate a log file based on size. Then it can be compresssed and even emailed to a given address. If you need syntax I can scare some up for you -- '73' Jim - KC9AOP On 7/12/05, Bill Vodall wrote: > > Another Linux question: > > > Is it possible to use syslogd on stdout from an application? > > > I'd like to save the verbose output from digi_ned in a file > for monitoring. I don't want the file to get too large. > > Restarting the program on a regular basis would be one solution > but I'm hoping for something cleaner. > > > Hmmm. Maybe "logrotate" is what I'm looking for. > > Any suggestions or hints? > > Thanks, > Bill - WA7NWP > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- '73' Jim - KC9AOP