Is all this stuff in our docs?
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Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
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> This is someones' elses' posting that i have preserved
> shud be useful.
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> regds
> mallah.
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> Well,
> the most correct way to do a logrotate is ( Redhat ):
>
> 1) Put on your postgresql.conf the following lines:
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> syslog = 2
> syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0'
> syslog_ident = 'postgres'
>
> 2) Put on the directory /etc/logrotate.d a file called
> 'postgres' with the following lines:
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> /var/log/postgresql.log {
> compress
> rotate 2
> size=10000k
> errors [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> create 0664 postgres postgres
> daily
> postrotate
> /usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
> endscript
> }
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> change the email address of course :-)
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> 3) Put the following line on your /etc/syslog.conf
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> # Save postgresql logs
> LOCAL0.*
> /var/log/postgresql.log
>
>
> Ciao
> Gaetano
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> On Thursday 30 January 2003 10:21 am, Mintoo Lall wrote:
> > Hi Everybody,
> >
> > I am new to postgresql. I started my postgres using the command
> >
> > postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data > logfile 2>&1 &
> >
> > Now after running it for some time I noticed that the size of this logfile
> > has become very large. Is this logfile used to store any important
> > information used by the database for recovery in case of crash? If no,is
> > there any way I can specify a different log file withouting stopping the
> > server ?
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tarun
> >
> >
> >
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