[ATrpms-users] log-rotate facility for mythtv

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Mon Mar 26 09:53:31 CEST 2007


On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:26:05AM +0100, Nick Morrott wrote:
> Is the script allowed to include both a time directive (weekly) and
> a size directive (10M) in the same block?

Hm, that's a good point, the man pages says that not.

> I'm wondering if this is the reason that Paulo's scripts have not
> rotated - perhaps the last directive (the size one) is overriding
> the weekly directive, causing logrotate to wait until the file
> reaches 10MB before it is rotated?

Yes, that's what's happening.

Looks like logrotate doesn't have a way to check both (max)size and
age. I'll have to drop one of them, probably size.

Good catch, thanks!
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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