[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Suggestion for logrotate

[Bill Erickson]

On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:24:02 -0400, Syd Weidman <s.weidman at uwinnipeg.ca>  
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I want to implement a logrotate script for Evergreen (osrfsys.log is  
> more than 2GB already), but I need to know what to put in the postrotate  
> section. For example, in the default logrotate script for apache2, there  
> is this bit:
>
>
> 	sharedscripts
> 	postrotate
> 		if [ -f /var/run/apache2.pid ]; then
> 			/etc/init.d/apache2 restart > /dev/null
> 		fi
> 	endscript
>
> What provision should be made for getting the opensrf processes to write  
> to the newly rotated logfile? Should I just run:
>
> su -c '/openils/bin/osrf_ctl.sh -c /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml -a  
> restart_all > /dev/null' opensrf


Hi Syd,

The C and Perl services currently open/close the file handle with each  
write, so simply moving the log file will cause a new one to be created  
and written to.

Also, note that Syslog is an option for Evergreen if you need any  
additional logging speed/features.

-b


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