Hi Bill,
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good method to archive a log file
There's loads of stuff for managing logfiles knocking about.
I know you said you'd looked at the Guide, but what was the version
you last downloaded? There's a bit in control.pod abou
At 02:40 PM 12/19/99 -0400, Eric L. Brine wrote:
>How about:
> sub cleanup {
>flock(FH, LOCK_UN);
> }
>
> $SIG{__DIE__} = sub {
>cleanup();
>die($_[0]);
> };
>
> END { cleanup(); }
>
>You'll never been able to write to the file if you don't unlock a shared
>lock.
Oh, I do LOCK_S
> In a Registry script I open a file the first request and set a global
> variable flag. Then for each request I just flock( FH, LOCK_SH ) and
> flock( FH, LOCK_UN).
>
> The only problem I see is that if the lock isn't released I need to do
> a graceful restart to get rid of that lock. (But t
Below I'm asking what are common ways to do a few things with log files
written by a Registry script.
In summary:
- does opening a file once per child save much time over once per request?
- is writing to a log file without locking crazy?
- what's a good way to gzip and purge live log files?
(Ye
