On Tue, Jan 04, 2005, Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 16:12, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005, Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 14:48, Tom Duffy wrote: > > > > It would be cool if the log file was saved with the pid in the name as > > > > well since then it wouldn't delete the old one when you restarted the > > > > sm. > > > > > > Dealing with the too many log files (and space) issue is probably better > > > than deleting the old log file (and making that explicit). So if no one > > > has any objections to this, I will commit the change for this. It is > > > pretty simple. > > > > Why not just append to the previous log file? That's what pretty much > > every other daemon I've used does and what I would expect. > > > > Maybe also move the log file to /var/log too? > > I noticed that some of these daemons periodically copy their messages. > One example is /var/log/messages. This becomes messages.1, .2, etc. Is > this done on a date/time basis or size basis or something else ? Should > this approach be taken for OpenSM ?
That is usually done by the logrotate package. Look at /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/ JE _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
