[patch] Add logrotate support

Justin Clift jclift at redhat.com
Fri Jul 8 20:36:09 UTC 2011


On 09/07/2011, at 6:26 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Justin Clift wrote:
>> On 08/07/2011, at 2:34 PM, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
>>> Logfile of iwhd grows quite quickly, especially if someone adds -v.
>>> I saw 100 GB log at one of test machines. We need to rotate them.
>>> For that, the daemon has to be able to reopen the log, which is not
>>> possible if it simply dumps everything to standard error. An ideal
>>> ipproach would be to have all messages printed through a logging
>>> facility. However, that requires a lot of patching, and there is a
>>> question of what to do with library output (if any). This patch
>>> offers a stop-gap solution, where we add a log rotation facility
>>> of our own standard error.
>> 
>> That's weird.  It's been documented as logging to:
>> 
>>  /var/log/iwhd.log
> 
> That is accurate.
> 
>> on the main Aeolus website for a while:
>> 
>>  http://www.aeolusproject.org/log_files.html#iwhd
>> 
>> Does that mean the website has been incorrect so far, but
>> will be correct once these patches are in?
> 
> No change in the log path.
> The difference is that now logs are rotatable (and rotated by default).

Cool, thanks. :)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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