[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Administration Questions

[Soulliere, Robert]

Hi Dan,

We try to avoid restarting the services during business hours, if at all possible, since it causes service interruptions. I don't think there is much danger of information loss, but others here with more knowledge could give a more sure answer.


For log rotation, I use the logrotate utility and scheme explained here:
http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-admin:maintenance:logs&s[]=logs

To minimize log size I also changed the log level settings in opensrf_core.xml to "1" for all services to just capture errors in most logs. If I need more extensive troubleshooting. I set it higher.

Regards,
Robert



Robert Soulliere
Systems Librarian
robert.soulliere at mohawkcollege.ca
Tel: 905-575-1212 X3936

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From: open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Wells
Sent: January 7, 2010 10:22 AM
To: open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Administration Questions

Hello all,

Here are a few basic question for other Evergreen admins.

First, what is the relative safety of restarting the various major stack components (router, Perl, C) during business hours?  Which, if any, are likely to result in information loss?

Second, what is a good log rotation scheme?  Are certain log files more valuable than others?  Does anyone have a good log rotation automation setup which they could share?

Thanks,
Dan

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