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Thanks a lot guys....
I appreciate your help.:b:

Hi,
Suppose there is a string
x.y.z , where x, y & z could be any integer from 0-999.

How do I extract the value of z?
Also how to extract "x.y" ?

I'm OK with using sh, sed, awk grep or cut....

Thanks Rakesh..
I'm not working with binary, so I believe this will help.
Wishes
Jay

I want to delete initial N bytes of a file using sed.
How can I do that?

I even tried

lseek(fd, (off_t)numOfBytes, SEEK_SET);
i=ftruncate(fd,1000);

but this didn't help

Hi,
I want to delete the initial few lines (or even bytes) from a file.
I want to do this from a C function & this is in Linux platform.
The truncate & ftruncate is allowing me to delete bytes...

Oh!! That works!

Thanks a lot Porter...
Have a nice day.

Wishes
Jay

Hi Porter,

The output of
root@WiMAX-BS:/var/log ls -ld /var/log/messages
-rw------- 1 root root 41994 Jan 23 03:16 /var/log/messages

==========

Well.. I was thinking like ...

Thanks....

Now I'm using a busybox find, which doesn't have support for "-size" argument
So i think a sed command that meets the requirement would be great.
Please provide a sed command to check...

Hi,

I've modified the syslogd source to include a thread that will keep track of a timer(or a timer thread). My intention is to check the file size of /var/log/messages in every one minute & if...

hmm..
looks like there is no way to configure the log file size from syslogd

Thanks, but I've clearly mentioned that I can't use logrotate.
May be I am looking for some kind of work around

Hi,

I'm using Linux 2.6 cross compiled for a embedded powerpc.
Earlier we were using busybox syslogd for logging the messages, but as the flexibilty is less, we decided to move to standard...

I got it.
its sysklogd-1.4.1rh.tar.gz

Thanks

Thanks..Fpmurphy
But, how I can find which file(or package) is implementing syslog source code?
There is no search option in the link you provided.

Hi,

I'm using Fedora Code 5 .
I want to see the source code of syslog.
Please tell me, where I can find the source code of syslog.


If you know any implementation of syslog meant for...

thanks a lot for help.
Just one more query.

How to copy the whole file, except last N lines to another file?

Hi all,

I'm new to shell scripting.
I want to copy initial few lines(say first 10 lines) from a file to another file.
There is no "head" command in our embedded system.
sed & awk is there which...