[syslog-ng] syslog-ng does not resume log when disk is full at

[Alexander Clouter]

Hi,

Andrej Lobovski <drejc83 at hotmail.com> [20080221 17:01:58 +0100]:
>
> Thank you for your input, but
> 
> > problem is that you just lost the previous nights logs
> 
> this is actually not required in my case. I can actually lose all logs from 
> time when disk was full, to the time when some disk space was freed.
>
Then you have two major problems:
1. why is all the date prior to 'disk full' getting lost
2. why bother to log if you do not care if the messages are lost?
 
> In my case it would be ok, that syslog-ng, when it runs out of disk space, 
> writes everything from that point till the point it has some disk space, in 
> dev/null instead in /var/logs/messages. Do you maybe have any clue on how 
> to do that (as I am still lost in syslog-ng source code :) )?
>
Now this is really strange.  You are happy to lose the previous nights (if 
not *all*) the logs but yet you are unhappy to type '/etc/init.d/syslog-ng 
restart' when everything explodes?  What additional data do you lose by 
restarting syslog-ng that you do not lose by not?

Cheers

Alex