On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:37:38 -0500, Matthew Wilson <[email protected]> writes:

> This is a funky problem, and vaguely off-topic.
>
> My webapp writes to five different log files in a directory.  I use
> logrotate to rotate the log files daily and then restart my web app.
> The logrotate config looks sort of like:
>
> /var/log/turbogears/*.log {
>
>     # Rotate the logs every day.
>     daily
>
>
>     # Now tell supervisord to restart all these scripts, so that they
>     # don't keep logging to the old files.
>     postrotate
>         supervisorctl restart webapp
>     endscript
>
> }
>
> Here's the problem: since I have five log files to rotate, logrotate
> restarts my app five times!
>
> Is there some cool way to tell supervisor that it should only restart
> my webapp if the process is more than, say, one hour old?  Then the
> needless restarts would get ignored.
>
> There's probably a solution to this that involves writing a better
> logrotate config, but I haven't figured that out either.
>
> All comments welcome!  supervisor is great software.

logrotate sharedscripts?
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