scott.marlowe wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > > You could also consider not using syslog at all: let the postmaster > > > output to its stderr, and pipe that into a log-rotation program. > > > I believe some people use Apache's log rotator for this with good > > > results. > > > > Not an option I'm afraid. PostgreSQL just jams and stops logging after > > the first rotation... > > > > I've read in the docs that syslog logging is the only "production" > > solution... > > Can you use the apache log rotator? It's known to work in my environment > (redhat 7.2, postgresql 7.2 and 7.4) with this command to start it in my > rc.local file: > > su - postgres -c 'pg_ctl start | rotatelogs $PGDATA/pglog 86400 2>1&'
Sure, our documentation specifically mentions using rotatelogs. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
