On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:36:03PM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
Hi,
> > I just noticed that some of my log directories had many more log files in
> > them than the value of the 'n' parameter in the corresponding svlogd config.
> >
> > A great deal of these were unprocessed .u files. Unfortunately, I'm not sure
> > if there were also more .s files than configured, but I set up an experiment
> > if you like.
> >
> > If the behaviour of not deleting .u files during log rotation is
> > intentional, svlogd(8) should probably point it out. It currently does not.
> > I expected .u and .s files to be treated the same way for the purposes of
> > log rotation (as is the case with multilog).
>
> svlogd doesn't differentiate between .u, .t, and .s files, it looks for
> file name starting with @ that are 27 characters long.
>
> But svlogd doesn't reduce the number of old log files if there are
> already more than configured; I guess this is what happens to you.
I know that, but this is not, I think, what happened to me. The number of
files was definitely increasing.
I'll try to reproduce this.
Andras
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