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Freeway Server-Resident Application (SRA) Programmer Guide
contains /var/log/, which is normally enough for several weeks of uptime. You can run
the "df /var/log" command occasionally to tell you how much free space is left.
On Freeway servers with rotating hard drives, you can set up the “s2g” partition as a
read-write partition and direct your syslog entries to be written there as outlined in
Section 4.4.1. In this case you have much more space available for your log file, and your
log file will not be lost every time the Freeway is rebooted. However, once you start writ-
ing to the hard drive during normal operations, you must heed the precautions outlined
in Section 4.4.1.
For more information about the syslogd daemon and the various options available
when setting it up, login to your Freeway, select "6" to enter the BSD shell, and type
these commands:
man syslogd (the syslogd daemon)
man syslog.conf (the syslogd configuration file)
man newsyslog (maintain syslog files at specified sizes)
4.4 Miscellaneous Items
This section contains some additional information that may be useful to programmers
who are developing an SRA.
4.4.1 Rotating Hard Drives
The standard configuration of a Freeway server comes with a flash drive installed. The
Freeway BSD operating system and protocol software is pre-loaded on the flash drive at
the Protogate factory. The partitions on the flash drive are mounted read only, and all
file operations are done in read-write RAM-disk partitions in memory. The advantage
of this configuration is that you can power down the Freeway server at any time without
having to worry about disk format problems.
If your application needs a non-volatile area to store data or logs, a rotating hard drive
can be installed in the Freeway server as an option. The rotating hard drive contains