svlogd - can I prove it's reading the config file?

[David Collier]

I've done better. I read the source code :-)

You disregard all but the first 128 chars of the file.

Which doesn't play well with the help file which permits # comments and
blank lines.

All working now - I'll put my commands at the top and leave the comments
for after.

TVM

David



In article <AANLkTikKin_aGjcM0M7-8ZSRxMKegVDbQbJXOxPgpim9 at mail.gmail.com>,
vda.linux at googlemail.com (Denys Vlasenko) wrote:

> *From:* Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
> *To:* from_busybox_maillist at dexdyne.com
> *CC:* busybox at busybox.net
> *Date:* Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:40:01 +0100
> 
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:20 PM, David Collier
> <from_busybox_maillist at dexdyne.com> wrote:
> > I have svlogd working very nicely, except it seems to take no 
> > notice of
> > the config file
> >
> > I have for example ( slightly edited to fit in 72 chars )
> >
> > /home/go_netrix # ls -l /var/log/modem_comms
> > total 2556
> > -rwxr--r--  1 root  root  999020 Jan 21 15:08 
> >  @4000...39a175323a13f8.s
> > -rwxr--r--  1 root  root  999006 Jan 21 15:39 
> >  @4000...39a8c5188e4140.s
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  root    1921 Jan 21 15:36 config
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  root  588233 Jan 21 15:57 current
> > -rw-------  1 root  root       0 Jan 21 14:53 lock
> >
> > but  cat /var/log/modem_comms/config| grep -v \#  gives me ( after
> > removing blank lines )
> >
> > s50000
> > n3
> > t30
> >
> > I've tried s 50000 as an alternative.
> >
> > =======
> >
> > having read the man page I can see no way to get it to flag to me 
> > whether
> > it is locating and reading my config file - it seems to default to
> > silence if it isn't happy.... and it clearly isn't happy ...
> 
> Run
> 
> strace -oLOG svlogd /var/log/modem_comms </dev/null
> 
> and post LOG here.
> 
> -- 
> vda
>