QtMoko v24

Thu Jun 3 04:06:59 CEST 2010

>> I've gone for a less radical approach, as most of the loglines came from
>> qtopia:
>>>> in /etc/init.d/qpe.sh
>>>> change the line that starts qpe in
>> qpe 2>&1 | logger -p local5.debug -t 'Qtopia'
>>>> than use /etc/syslog.conf to only log important info (see man
>> syslog.conf)

> Sure, but i have seen kernel going crazy and spamming megabytes into 
> /var/log/messages. So i think complete removal of loggers is more safe.

Why not use the circular in-memory buffer provided by busybox's syslogd?
It's what OpenWRT uses (and many other embedded firmwares): it doesn't
eat up your Flash/disk, but still gives you access to the last
few messages.
I already posted the init file I use for it:
 # cat /etc/init.d/syslog-busybox 
 #!/bin/sh

 ### BEGIN INIT INFO
 # Provides: sysklogd
 # Required-Start: $remote_fs $time
 # Required-Stop: $remote_fs $time
 # Should-Start: $network
 # Should-Stop: $network
 # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6
 # Short-Description: System logger
 ### END INIT INFO

 case "1ドル" in
 start )
 echo -n "Starting Busybox syslog:"
 if busybox syslogd -C16; then
 echo -n " syslogd"; else echo -n " !syslogd!"; fi
 if busybox klogd; then
 echo -n " klogd"; else echo -n " !kogd!"; fi
 echo "."
 ;;
 esac
 #
You can then read your syslog with "busybox logread" (for which you can
make a symlink).
 Stefan