On 23 October 2011 14:46, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: >> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:51:44 GMT >> From: [email protected] (Karl Berry) >> >> I temporarily switched vcs:/usr/local/bin/bzr-timeout to run with strace >> instead of timeout, and found /var/lib/bzr/.bzr.log being opened(*). >> It was a symlink to /dev/null. > > That was the /dev/null file descriptor I saw open in /proc/NNN/fd/, > then. > >> So I moved the symlink aside and replaced it with a normal file and ran >> a typical bzr command. The log msgs weren't impossibly voluminous, so I >> left it that way, and we'll see how it grows. We'll certainly have to >> rotate it along with other logs, at least. > > I'd expect bzr to rotate it, as it does with client logs. Martin, is > that expectation correct?
Yes. >> (*) Also, does not make sense to me that the normal log is a dot file. >> I would have found it three days ago if it had been a normal name. > > I agree, it doesn't make much sense for a server to save a log in a > dot-file. Perhaps submit a bug report about that. I agree too; there may already be a bug report. m
