BSD Ports

sysutils/flog 1.8 DragonFly

Small STDIN-to-file logger with support for log rotation

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2
Categories
sysutils
Package size
12.0 KiB, 29.2 KiB installed

Description

flog (file logger) is a small C program that reads input from STDIN and writes to a file, optionally adding timestamps. If SIGHUP is received, the file will be reopened, allowing for log rotation (see newsyslog(8)). The log file will only be reopened if flog detects that rotation has occurred (i.e., the old file is gone or the inode has changed). flog is extremely small (a memory footprint of less than 500 bytes). It also protects you from running out of disk space; if that happens, the logfile will be truncated and a warning generated. This could save you from waking up to pager beeps in the middle of the night.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlysysutils/flog1.8
FreeBSDsysutils/flog1.8

Install

Binary package:

pkg install flog

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/sysutils/flog && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The flog port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing