[IRCServices Coding] suggestion

[Andrew Church]

>Good for debugging...
>
>Set a maximum size for the services logfile. Recently, I've been outputting
>a lot of information to the logfile and it's built up faster than I
>thought -- to the point where it took up every bit of disk space.  If
>services' were to remove the first line and append the new line, that'd be
>helpful. Or if it just stopped completely.

     Removing the first lines when the file got full would require massive
disk activity and slow down Services to the point of being unusable; not
logging at all has major security implications.  No to both.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/