Re: [Xen-devel] XSA-180 follow-up: repurpose xenconsoled for logging

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 21/06/16 16:46, Wei Liu wrote:
> Here is what we have gathered so far:
> 
> 1. Virtlogd is not the right answer to XSA-180 because it is inherently
>    designed to work within libvirt.
> 2. Syslog is not suitable because it doesn't provide a fd for QEMU to
>    write to.
> 3. Logrotate is not suitable because it only rotates periodically.

Huh? Excerpt from `man logrotate`:

Each log file may be handled daily, weekly, monthly, or when it grows
too large.

So why is logrotate not suitable?


Juergen

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