On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:28 PM, David R Boldt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been been recently working on changes to improve how the server >> logs are handled to make it more straightforward to use commonly >> used tools for log rotation (like logrotate) out of the box. I'd >> like to solicit some comments on the subject. >> >> Currently, the when doing file-based logging, the servers create a >> new log file on each restart. The current log is renamed to a file >> with a extension of .old. The existing .old file is overwritten. In >> older versions, by default, the server processes were restarted >> weekly, so this made for a rudimentary log rotation. (There is no >> check on size or time on the .old file when the server restarts, so >> one annoying outcome is you can lose log information in the case a >> server process is restarted or crashes back to back.) >> >> I propose in some future release of openafs this behavior be >> deprecated and, by default, the server would simply append to the >> already existing log file on startup. Also, each server would handle >> the HUP signal to (at least) reopen the log file when it is rotated >> by an external tool such as logrotate. A .pid file for each server >> process would be created to allow the log rotate tool to signal the >> server processes to reopen log files after rotating the log files. >> >> The old behavior of renaming the logs at startup, deleting the >> existing .old file, would be available as a run-time option. Sites >> would be able to set this option as a command line switch for the >> server programs, and set bosserver to do weekly restarts (which, by >> the way, is no longer the default in the upcoming 1.6.x series). > > If the wish list is open, the ability to log to a pipe so that one could use > a tool such a cronolog would be convenient for us.
that's such a short wishlist that it was done in 2008 or so. -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
