Bug 66059 – metalog no longer buffers by default. Docs should be updated.

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Luke Macken (RETIRED) 2004-10-01 13:15:19 UTC]

Buffering is now off by default in metalog installations, so the following should be removed from the mips installation guide:

Important:  Metalog flushes output to the disk in blocks, so messages aren't immediately recorded into the system logs. If you are trying to debug a daemon, this performance-enhancing behavior is less than helpful. When your Gentoo Linux system is up and running, you can send metalog a USR1 signal to temporarily turn off this message buffering (meaning that tail -f /var/log/everything/current will now work in real time, as expected), and a USR2 signal to turn buffering back on again. If you want to disable buffering permanently, you can change METALOG_OPTS="-B" to METALOG_OPTS="-B -s" in /etc/conf.d/metalog.

[Comment 1 Joshua Kinard 2005-04-23 22:36:16 UTC]

Stuart:  This covered in your updated handbook by chance?

[Comment 2 Stuart Longland (RETIRED) 2005-04-24 06:18:44 UTC]

I've just had a look, but can't find any reference to buffering in the current (or even the 2004.2) MIPS handbooks.

I certainly do remember seeing it in previous editions of the guide, however, I'd say this disappeared from CVS quite some time ago, prior to the 2004.2 release.

(23:18) stuartl@beast en $ grep -iR "Metalog flushes output to the disk in blocks, so messages aren't immediately recorded into the system logs." *
^^ It certainly isn't in my CVS repository. ;-)

[Comment 3 Malte S. Stretz 2005-05-11 09:52:03 UTC]

Was just looking for metalog bugs and found this one.  Can't see any references to that paragraph either, guess it can be closed?

[Comment 4 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) 2005-07-21 11:58:52 UTC]

I was unable to find any occurence of this in current English docs except for 
doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml. 

[Comment 5 Joshua Kinard 2005-07-21 17:21:20 UTC]

Most docs apparently updated by now.  Closing.