On 27-Apr-2004 Toad wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:11:17PM -0500, Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> Just noticed after I had uploaded the log rotate script that the date >> command >> was being used in two locations. Stoopid. > > Uhm, what exactly is this supposed to do?
Well, you know, rotate the log file. :-) > If you are not using > logRotate=true in the config file, then the node will just keep writing > to the first logfile, so it gets longer and longer and longer... The script archives the log file and clears it as well. [snippet of script] # Copy log to new file cp $FREENET_LOG "freenet.log-$d" # Right here is where the log gets "cleared" (overwritten, to be more precise) echo Log rotated at $d > $FREENET_LOG # Compress new log archive bzip2 -fq "freenet.log-$d" chown freenet:freenet "freenet.log-$d.bz2" exit 0 -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas" _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
