[syslog-ng] changing the location of the disk buffer for log_disk_fifo_size()

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 12:17 +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 12:16 +0300, Lucky Y wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there anyway to change the location of the disk buffer for
> > log_disk_fifo_size() ?
> > 
> > It buffers the messages in /var/lib/syslog-ng/ by default in Linux,
> > but in our system this directory will not exist.
> 
> Not currently, however I plan to add functionality that will cause
> syslog-ng to use the same directory as specified by the --persist-file
> switch.
> 
> Would that be ok for you?

At the end I've committed a change that adds a separate command line
option for this, -Q or --qdisk-dir sets the base directory for
disk-spool files.

It's going to be released in the next syslog-ng version.

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Bazsi