Re: [PATCH] Log file limit and timestamp precision

Yo napot Zoli,

In my humble opinion, log rotation and even timestamping is a job for
external applications.

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On Wednesday, 2004-10-13 at 07:34:10 PM, Zoltán Dudás scribbled:
> Hi All,
> 
> The Kannel has made me 2G log during a night and it stopped because of limits 
> of filesystem. Of course it was abnormal operation and usually a Kannel log
> file isn't so big. But I have modified the logging system of Kannel and it
> won't happen again. If the size of a log file grows above 100Mb it renames
> it and start writing into a new one. My another modification in the logging
> system modify the time precision to milliseconds. I have too much log lines
> with the same timestamp, I suppose it is very useful at bursts.
> 
> Zoli



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