[BusyBox] syslogd -p

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Jason,

I can't do this as this is a read-only filesystem, and I don't want to
do it when I build the rootfs as a special exception.

I'd prefer an option to specify where the log socket goes.

Regards, Stuart

Jason Schoon wrote:
> Is there any reason you can't create a symlink in the RO filesystem at 
> creation time?  I make a /dev/log symlink that points out to 
> /tmp/.logdevice (a tmpfs mount).
> 
> On 7/5/05, Stuart Hughes <stuarth at freescale.com 
> <mailto:stuarth at freescale.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I'd like to run syslogd on a read-only root filesystem, but I can't
>     because /dev is not writable and the /dev/log socket needs to be created
>     by syslogd.
> 
>     On the fullup sysklogd version there is a "-p" option to specify the
>     location of this socket.
> 
>     Are there any plans to add this option to busybox.
> 
>     TIA, Stuart
> 
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