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<H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] Technical programming question (circular buffers & logging)</H1>
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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Technical programming question (circular buffers & logging)</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Chris Gray <<A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:15:12 -0600</LI>
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[Greg Miller:]
> Ben Greear wrote:
> > I think I could write my own thing to do this, but I was wondering
> > if anyone knew of any tricks with files, or ready-built libraries
> > to do something like this...
> As I recall you're using UNIX/Linux for your real server? If you could
> reproduce the problem by yourself and have a WinNT box handy, you could
> use the the NT event log, which would do the job for you quite nicely.
'syslog' is the UNIX variant of that. However, I think what Ben wanted
to avoid was any log files of the full stuff, since there are a *lot* of
events happening. So, he wanted just a log of the last N activities.
I've seen N's here range from 100 to a few thousand.
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Don't design inefficiency in - it'll happen in the implementation.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00901" HREF="msg00901.html">[MUD-Dev] Technical programming question (circular buffers & logging)</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Thu 15 Jul 1999, 02:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00914" HREF="msg00914.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Technical programming question (circular buffers & logging)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00917" HREF="msg00917.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Technical programming question (circular buffers & logging)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00927" HREF="msg00927.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Technical programming question (circular buffers & logging)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00926" HREF="msg00926.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Technical programming question (circular buffers & logging)</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Fri 16 Jul 1999, 19:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00888" HREF="msg00888.html">[MUD-Dev] list of MUD platforms?</A></strong>,
Timothy O'Neill Dang <a href="mailto:timothy#nmia,com">timothy#nmia,com</a>, Wed 14 Jul 1999, 00:23 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00890" HREF="msg00890.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] list of MUD platforms?</A></strong>,
Ross Nicoll <a href="mailto:rnicoll#lostics,demon.co.uk">rnicoll#lostics,demon.co.uk</a>, Wed 14 Jul 1999, 00:49 GMT
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