[ATrpms-users] log-rotate facility for mythtv

[Jeffrey J. Kosowsky]

Yes -- it only rotates when both conditions are true.
You don't really need a script. Just look at the existing
/etc/logrotate.d/mythbackend file and delete the 'size' line if you
want it to just rotate every week independent of size.

Nick Morrott wrote at about 02:26:05 +0100 on Monday, March 26, 2007:
 > On 25/03/07, 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 (?).
 > 
 > Axel,
 > 
 > I'm in the process tonight of writing a simple patch for the
 > mythbackend init scripts in MythTV SVN to add pidfile support and a
 > sample logrotate script.
 > 
 > I know from using the atrpms.net builds of MythTV in the past that
 > they include logrotate support and so I had a look at the logrotate
 > script in the mythbackend rpm. Is the script allowed to include both a
 > time directive (weekly) and a size directive (10M) in the same block?
 > 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?
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > Nick
 > -- 
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 > http://mythtv.org/wiki/
 > MythTV users list archive:
 > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users
 > 
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