Re: I Want to Help

[Fredrick Paul Eisele]

A little more information about the program, adze.
I was having problems with logfiles growing to large.
This was on an embedded systems operating remotely.
The normal mechanisms for handling logfiles were not working out.
In frustration I wrote this little program.
It is intended to be used as a writer of trimmed logs (an adze is a tool 
for trimming logs).
It adds information to an existing file (adds sounds like adze).
It uses file locks to prevent/syncronize access to the file by other 
adze processes.
This makes it possible for two process to write to the same logfile in a 
reasonable manner.
It is also possible to use an adze file as a persistent queue.
In other words, it is a handy lightweight tool in the tradition of cut, 
split, sort, etc.
If you are interested, I would be willing to prepare it for inclusion 
with the other fileutils.
Thanks

toby cabot wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:14:07PM -0400, Fredrick Paul Eisele wrote:
>  
>
> > I have written a file utility program.
> > It belongs to the type of programs such as cat, echo, cp, tee, tail,  etc.
> > It writes its standard input to a named file where the size
> > of that named file is limited to a maximum value.
> > It also knows how to dump a file thus created.
> > (I haven't got a tail equivalent dump working yet.)
> > The way it works is that it maintains length/position information
> > at the beginning of the file.
> > I thought about putting the program on sourceforge but it is a fairly
> > small code, as you can imagine, so would 'fileutils' be a better place?
> > If you don't agree can you make a recommendation?
> >    
>
> Frederick,
>
> Thank you for your interest in helping the GNU Project!  adze looks
> like a useful utility, and I think that your hunch about fileutils is
> a good one.  Probably the best thing to do at this point is send an
> email to the address@hidden mailing list explaining adze and
> offering to add it to fileutils.  The maintainers will be in a better
> position than me to decide whether it makes sense to add as a
> standalone program, or perhaps fold the features of it into existing
> fileutils.
>
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