Thanks Paul, Is there any drawback to this ?? (other than the small slice of time where the logs may not be written to ) ??
-S On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Paul Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 09:16:56AM -0400, Scott Owen wrote: > > I still seem to be having some issues with logrotate and the zebra > service > > starting up.... > > > > I have tried both of the options discussed in bug # > > https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16885 > > > > Has there been a good / reliable fix to this issue ? I was hoping that an > > upgrade to 17.11 might be the solution...but sadly, I still seem to have > > this issue on 2 of my 3 Kha installs.... > > Another possible solution, which avoids shutting down Koha altogether, > is to tweak the logrotate config to use the "copytruncate" setting. So > instead of all the prerotate/postrotate stuff, just do this: > > /var/log/koha/*/*.log { > rotate 5 > weekly > missingok > compress > delaycompress > notifempty > copytruncate > } > > Here's what the logrotate man page says about copytruncate: > > copytruncate > Truncate the original log file in place after creating a copy, > instead of moving the old log file and optionally creating a new > one. It can be used when some program cannot be told to close > its logfile and thus might continue writing (appending) to the > previous log file forever. Note that there is a very small time > slice between copying the file and truncating it, so some log- > ging data might be lost. When this option is used, the create > option will have no effect, as the old log file stays in place. > > Paul. > > -- > Paul Hoffman <[email protected]> > Systems Librarian > Fenway Libraries Online > c/o Wentworth Institute of Technology > 550 Huntington Ave. > Boston, MA 02115 > (617) 442-2384 (FLO main number) > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
