Re: truncating log files (fifo)

[Kai Großjohann]

"Joe Casadonte" <jcasadonte@northbound-train.com> writes:

> I want to write to a log file, and have a maximum number of lines,
> such that when the max is exceeded, the oldest lines (the ones at the
> beginning of the file) are lopped off.  Not terribly difficult to do,
> but if there's a package that does something like this already, I'd
> rather not re-invent the wheel.  Does anyone know of anything?  Thanks!

nnmail-cache-insert comes to mind, but it's specific to that file
format.

kai
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