[ATrpms-users] log-rotate facility for mythtv

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On 3/25/07, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 04:39:36PM -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> > On 3/25/07, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:31:20PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> > >> Just noticed that the /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log just continues
> > >> growing forever (so does /var/log/mythtfilldatabase but it seems to
> > >> collect much less information). Even worse, since mythbackend.log is
> > >> 'hidden' in the subdirectory /var/log/mythtv, casual users may not
> > >> notice how big the log file is getting...
> > >>
> > >> Would it be reasonable to add a logrotate facility for the mythtv
> > >> rpms?
> > >
> > >The rpms already have this for mythbackend.log since about mid-2003
> (?).
> >
> >
> >
> > The log size has to reach 10M for anything to be done.
> > Mine is running since October and it is just a little bit over 1M now.
> >
> > Maybe a smaller size would be better? 512 K?
>
> Perhaps, but OTOH 10MB isn't much. It's for a system that uses up to
> 3-10 Mbit/sec for recording, e.g. 10MB are 10-30 seconds. :)
>
> But yours should be running since october, logrotate should be
> rotating it weekly irrespective of the size.



I think not.  There is only one file in /var/log/mythtv

mythbackend.log

The first lines are:

2006-10-28 08:30:03.379 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2006-10-28 08:30:03.575 New DB connection, total: 1
2006-10-28 08:30:03.586 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2006-10-28 08:30:03.610 Current Schema Version: 1160

.................

2007-03-25 10:17:34.454 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 3.1 GB w/freq: 10
min
2007-03-25 10:17:35.807 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2007-03-25 10:17:36.642 Scheduled 0 items in 0.8 = 0.57 match + 0.27 place
2007-03-25 10:17:36.996 Seem to be woken up by USER


Only messages about connections with entries for every day since
October.


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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