RE: a brief story about your alternatives

You can setup syslog to write the logs to another server.
Problem solved :-)
Peter
 

> Leevon Reaves said:
> > I was at the time working on a large project involving 
> small embedded
> > routers.    In my professional opinion openbsd on soekris 
> is awesome.
> 
> That's what you would have got when/if your Embsd order 
> arrived.  As far
> as the hardware is concerned, anyway.  So not really an 'alternative'!
> 
> > I highly reccomend the soekris products, which can be  
> purchased from
> > www.soekris.com.   openbsd proper can fit on a 128meg cf  with 64 m
> > left over....  thats what I personally ended up doing.
> 
> Except that the stock OpenBSD likes a writeable /var/ ... and 
> puts logs
> in it.  Your Compact-Flash device will die after a while.  They can't
> cope with being written to a lot.  Are you aware of this limitation?
> 
> > the only piece of advice I have for anyone is to not 
> undersetimate how
> > hard it is to get cf geometry correct.
> 
> Yes, that is useful advice, thanks.  I think it has been pointed out a
> few times on the list so far, but I'm not sure if it has found its way
> into any documentation yet.
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Shugg <[email protected]>                   
> http://www.neep.com.au/
> 
> "Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's 
> always someone worse off than yourself."
> "Is there?  Well I'd like to meet him.  I could do with a good laugh."
> 
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