On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:53:54AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> > It's not increasing but why doesn't svlogd delete extra log files? What
> > is the design justification?
>
> logs is crucial data. I don't want svlogd to remove possibly tons of log
> messages in many log files due to some temporary misconfiguration. If
> you descrease the number of log files in the config file, you can remove
> older log manually, and svlogd will adapt. If you remove them manually,
> you really know what you're doing.
At least svlogd could write a warning to the log suggesting how to
remove extra log files. E.g.,
n=10; echo 1,-${n}p | ed -s '!ls [EMAIL PROTECTED]' | xargs rm
(It took me about 20 minutes to re-invent that command and I had seen
somebody else use it before.)
At least mention it on the man page.
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