From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: truncating log files (fifo)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:39:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vaf4rcvebl9.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u1y804cm6.fsf@terrapin.northbound-train.com
"Joe Casadonte" <jcasadonte@northbound-train.com> writes:
> I want to write to a log file, and have a maximum number of lines,
> such that when the max is exceeded, the oldest lines (the ones at the
> beginning of the file) are lopped off. Not terribly difficult to do,
> but if there's a package that does something like this already, I'd
> rather not re-invent the wheel. Does anyone know of anything? Thanks!
nnmail-cache-insert comes to mind, but it's specific to that file
format.
kai
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2002-09-11 18:14 truncating log files (fifo) Joe Casadonte
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