David,
In Bering-uClibc it's fixed in the following way:
# only keep a week's depth of these
oldlogs=`find /var/log/ntpstats -type f -mtime +7`
[ "$oldlogs" != "" ] && rm $oldlogs
As you can see Bering-uClibc uses a newer version of busybox.
Eric Spakman
> In case anyone else is suffering with the logfiles from the ntpsimpl
> package filling up their RAM disk...
>
> I'm running Bering 1.2, with version 4.1.0-8 of ntpsimpl so that my
> router acts as an NTP time server for the local networks. I got the
> ntpsimpl package from:
> http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/1.2/packages/ntpsimpl.lrp
>
> Functionally everything is fine, but I've noticed that the usage of the
> /var/log partition gradually increases over time. I've been putting up
> with it for a while but I finally decided to try to get to the bottom of
> the problem this morning.
>
> It seems it all comes down to the file /etc/cron.daily/ntpsimpl which
> tries to delete NTP logfiles more than 7 days old using a 'find'
> command. The syntax for this command is what you'd expect for standard
> implementations of find but not for the cut-down version shipped as part
> of BusyBox v0.60.3 in Bering 1.2. There seem to be two problems:
> - BusyBox find does not understand the '-exec ...' construct at all.
> - BusyBox find reverses the sense of the '-N' and '+N' age measures -
> at least in v0.60.3
>
> Newer versions of BusyBox seem to have addressed the latter problem
> (based on what I have read in the BusyBox mailing list archives) but not
> the former one.
>
> For now, I've replaced the line in /etc/cron.daily/ntpsimpl that reads:
> find /var/log/ntpstats -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
> with:
> rm -f `find /var/log/ntpstats -type f -mtime -7`
>
> The '-7' will need changing back to '+7' for newer versions of BusyBox
> find.
>
> --
> David M Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials
> Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
> GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
> administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
> SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
>
-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials
Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click
------------------------------------------------------------------------
leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
