pseudo-logrotate

[David Collier]

I recently realised that the syslogd in busybox takes a path/filename and
a file length and a number-of-files. Lovely

I am running an embedded system, and it does things at start-up like

   datalogging.sh &
   modemcommunications.sh &
   
which dumps any/all debug information that the s/w MIGHT be able to give
me into a black hole.

Or if I run it from the console, it interleaves it so I can't see what's
what!!!

what I'd like to do is something like 

 datalogging.sh &         > /var/log/datalogging/log         200 3
 modemcommunications.sh & > /var/log/modemcommunications/log 200 3
   
and log the output of each process into the RAMdisk in it's own
limited-size log file(s).

I hear there's something called logrotate I can compile and install, but
it is frustrating that all the code to do this seems to be in busybox for
syslogd - can it be bent to my purpose in any way?

David