syslog on the n900
 

I have had a few instances over the past few weeks in which it would be a good thing to have logging enabled:

• I had some image file which was causing my change background menu item on the desktop not to appear;
• This morning, when I switched over from the FM transmitter to bluetooth playing an ogg file, the machine shut down.

I see klogd and sysklogd in the repos from the command line. Has anyone set up or considered setting up logging? I can apt-get install it, and set up a basic syslog.conf, but is there a downside to it? I know these are solid-state drives, but the number of writes have gone up enough that I think that they will last beyond the effective usefulness of the device. And in case I'm wrong, I can place it on the SD card, which is fairly inexpensive to replace.

Anyone have thoughts on this?

Thanks,
--vr

Re: syslog on the n900
 

I have syslog installed, only downside I see would be eating up root space, unless you make it log somewhere else.
Not sure about writes, others know more.

Re: syslog on the n900
 

Thanks, MohammedAG. I had planned on having only a minimal set of files. Even on my Debian workstation, /var/log is only taking 133MB, and I was planning to write logs to the mmc card, which currently has almost 9GB free.

Re: syslog on the n900
 

http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/.../maemo5/syslog

Enabling/disabling logging from some apps requires you to change logging level settings in gconf

Re: syslog on the n900
 

guys where is the syslog file which shows me my log?
have forgot it.......

Re: syslog on the n900
 

It is in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/syslog.old

Re: syslog on the n900
 

You mean the one that configures logging? (/etc/syslog.conf) or the log files? (Those default to /var/log, e.g. /var/log/syslog, but it depends on how you have syslog.conf configured.)

Re: syslog on the n900
 

How can we do that?

Re: syslog on the n900
 

"mount -o bind $TARGETDIR /var/log" ?