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[Ivan Smahin]

Hello Danny,

Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 2:59:20 PM, you wrote:

> Hi Ruslan,


> On 02 Mar 2010, at 13:54, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

>> On 3/2/10 1:57 PM, "Ivan Smahin" <ivan_smahin at paradigmasoft.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Danny,
>>> 
>>> Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 1:28:52 PM, you wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Ivan,
>>> 
>>>> I don't think this is a good idea...
>>>> Syslog rotates, so that means, at certain point you will start
>>>> losing info (advantage is that the file has a maximum size...)
>>>> But I have gone way back in logs sometimes to find a problem...
>>> 
>>> What about croned tasks for syslog maintenance?
>>> I believe it is possible and very efficient way to keep it in order.
>> 
>> Ivan, question is:
>>    if it is possible with syslog way,
>>    provide options or/and cron tasks to NOT LOOSE even month ago info?
>> 
>> 
>> Danny worry, that syslog will just FORGET too old log msgs...
>> That is the problem first of all
>> 
> That's correct.

For   MS   event   log   there  are an options - "When mazimum event log
is reached:

- Overwrite events as needed(oldest events first)
- Archive the log when full, do not overwrite events
- Do not overwrite events (Clear logs manually)

Also   you  may  create  a scheduler task for log event - say run some
program, send it via e-mail and so on.
Also there are a lot third-party scripts for event log maintenance.

I believe the same can be found for MacOS and Linux.

As I said there are lot of possibilities to work with a syslog.



-- 
Best regards,
Ivan Smahin 
Senior Software Engineer
Paradigma Software, Inc
Valentina - The Ultra-Fast Database
http://www.valentina-db.com