[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Administration Questions

[Dan Wells]

Hello Robert,

Thank you especially for pointing out the log maintenance page.  It sounds like exactly what I need, and something I should certainly know about for other reasons as well.

As far as causing service interruptions with a restart, we are just a single library, and a restart takes only a matter of seconds.  Would I be overly cavalier to not be concerned about an occasional daytime restart?

Dan

>>> On 1/7/2010 at 11:14 AM, "Soulliere, Robert"
<robert.soulliere at mohawkcollege.ca> wrote:
> 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[]=l 
> ogs
> 
> 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
> 
> Library at Mohawk
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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