On 25/03/07, Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- MythTV Official wiki: http://mythtv.org/wiki/ MythTV users list archive: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ atrpms-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
