fab4 PB2 currently running 7.5.0 r8224

I'm trying to track down a bug, but the syslog messages file is too chatty -- with the default setting of rotating every 1000 KB, I only get about 45 minutes of log data before it's rotated. The bug I'm looking at tends to occur after hours of idle/off time, so I need about 24 hours of log data.

I think /etc/init.d/rcS should be modified to write larger log files (10 MB) and keep more of them (9 backups rather than just 1) if using attached media. With SD cards typically holding between 2 and 16 GB, I think it's reasonable to expect that users can devote 100 MB (1 live file, 9 backups) to SqueezeOS logs.

I'd suggest changing this in rcS

# Start syslogd             
if [ -e /media/*/log ]; then
        # log and core files to media
        LOG_DIR=`echo /media/*/log`

        echo "Starting syslogd (to $LOG_DIR)"
        /sbin/syslogd -S -s1000 -O $LOG_DIR/messages

to something like

# Start syslogd             
if [ $(ls -d /media/*/log | wc -l) -gt 0 ]; then
        # log and core files to media
        LOG_DIR=`echo /media/*/log | head -1`

        echo "Starting syslogd (to $LOG_DIR)"
        /sbin/syslogd -S -s10240 -O $LOG_DIR/messages -b 9

(Note I'm also being more careful when setting LOG_DIR to ensure that only the first /media/*/log directory is used, and that the script's test won't choke if there are "log" directories on two different mounted media. I don't know if USB and SD are mounted before this runs, but it seems prudent to be more careful here.)

For the time being, I manually killed syslogd and spawned a new instance with the desired command line args.

Thanks.