Andrew Deason wrote:
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:50:36 -0500
Michael Meffie <mmef...@sinenomine.net> wrote:
I propose in some future release of openafs this behavior be
deprecated and, by default, the server would simply append to the
already existing log file on startup. Also, each server would handle
the HUP signal to (at least) reopen the log file when it is rotated
by an external tool such as logrotate.
We already use HUP to reset the logging debug level, though.
Yes. I think ideally, HUP should be used to set the log level to
what every is the configured level in the yet to be implemented
config file.
The fileserver already automatically checks every five minutes (I think)
if it needs to reopen the log, and does so if the log file was moved. If
people would find that acceptable, I'd rather just do something similar
for all daemons. Unless we want to try to have the process guess whether
you wanted to rotate the log or reset the log level, but that seems like
it might be error prone even if we can guess that pretty well.
I think the check is ok, but a more common way to deal with this in my
opinion to have a postrotate script reopen the log, otherwise it looks
odd to be missing the log file for a five minute window. What do others
think?
Thanks,
Mike
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