On 12/2/2010 10:22 PM, Michael Meffie wrote: >> 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. > > Hello David, > > Yes, logging to a pipe is already possible, and what I'm > suggesting would not change that. And, as others have mentioned, > logging to syslog is also already possible, and even preferred > by many sites. > > The key point is that currently some sites may be relying on > weekly restarts and the current rename from FileLog to FileLog.old > to avoid filling a disk partition. I think a more sensible approach > in long term, for sites that choose to log to regular files, > is to just let the server append, and let the modern log rotate > tool of your choice deal with the log rotation.
Of course that requires that there be a log rotation tool. I don't think that OpenAFS by default should fill the disk partition simply because it is permitted to run for years without restarts and the admin has not configured a log rotation tool. Since 1.6 is disabling weekly restarts by default, this problem should be addressed before its release. Jeffrey Altman
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