Can't use logrotate if the partition is mounted readonly. I can see the point if the idea wasn't to fill up disk space, but my whole idea is to not write to the disk at all. Symlink is also a good idea, though.
best, d. Andy Farnell wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 21:57:18 +0100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Plessas) wrote: > >> * Derek Holzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-31 18:47]: >>> So I made sure to mount all my drives read-only, and that everything >>> would start from a script on power-up. Having the whole operating system >>> on a Flash card/USB stick (again, no logging, read-only) is also quite >> How do you do that? Do you mount /var/log as ramdisk which gets erased >> at reboot, or do you tell every service/daemon not to log? > > Symlink logs to /dev/null or use logrotate to delete them on the hour. > Better if you can tell a process not to log though, stop the problem at > its source. > >> thanks, PP >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PD-list@iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista ---Oblique Strategy # 65: "Emphasize differences" _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
