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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: XSA-180 follow-up: repurpose xenconsoled for logging
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 17:10:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <576958DA.4000300@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160621144607.GU1790@citrix.com>

On 21/06/16 16:46, Wei Liu wrote:
> Here is what we have gathered so far:
> 
> 1. Virtlogd is not the right answer to XSA-180 because it is inherently
>    designed to work within libvirt.
> 2. Syslog is not suitable because it doesn't provide a fd for QEMU to
>    write to.
> 3. Logrotate is not suitable because it only rotates periodically.

Huh? Excerpt from `man logrotate`:

Each log file may be handled daily, weekly, monthly, or when it grows
too large.

So why is logrotate not suitable?


Juergen

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-21 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-01 14:00 XSA-180 follow-up: repurpose xenconsoled for logging Wei Liu
2016-06-03 10:57 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-03 13:30   ` Wei Liu
2016-06-03 14:10     ` George Dunlap
2016-06-03 14:21       ` Wei Liu
2016-06-03 16:57 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-06 15:56   ` Wei Liu
2016-06-03 17:38 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-06-06 10:12   ` George Dunlap
2016-06-06 13:03     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-06-06 15:48       ` Wei Liu
2016-06-07  9:57         ` George Dunlap
2016-06-07 10:18           ` Wei Liu
2016-06-06 20:47     ` Doug Goldstein
2016-06-07 11:43       ` Wei Liu
2016-06-21 14:46 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-21 15:10   ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2016-06-21 15:23     ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-21 15:11   ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-21 15:53     ` George Dunlap
2016-06-21 16:04       ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-21 16:17         ` George Dunlap
2016-06-22  0:58       ` Jim Fehlig

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