On 2024-07-10, Marcus MERIGHI <mcmer-open...@tor.at> wrote: > Hello Tom, > > tom.sm...@wirelessconnect.eu (Tom Smyth), 2024.07.10 (Wed) 18:40 (CEST): >> swap /var/log mfs rw,nosuid,noexec,nodev,-s=524288,-P=/persist-fs/var/log 0 0 >> mfs:97883 on /var/log type mfs (asynchronous, local, nodev, noexec, >> nosuid, size=524288 512-blocks) > > as you do not save the logs, why not syslog "to an in-memory buffer that may > be > read using syslogc(8)" (text taken from syslog.conf(5)? > > I have everything commented out in syslog.conf(5), except for: > *.* :256:full > > And in rc.conf.local(8): > syslogd_flags=-s /var/run/syslogd.sock > > You can then read the logs with > $ syslogc -f full
That can be useful, but there are some gotchas. For example you can't use syslogc twice at the same time.
