Re: Why does soft link in /var/log disappear?
John Almberg writes: > I didn't make my /var partition big enough, way back when, and have had to > move my /var/log/www directory to another partition. I did this by moving the > directory, and then adding a soft link from /var/log to the moved directory, > using something like: > > ln -s /home/wwwlog /var/log/www > > This works great, but something is deleting the soft link. > > Is there anything in the freebsd base that 'cleans up' the /var/log > directory? Any hints on how I can discover what is doing this clean up, or a > way to protect this link from being deleted? When does it happen? Without knowing that, we're pretty much into wild-guess territory. That said, my wild guess is that it happens at installworld time and there's something strange in your mtree file for var. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Why does soft link in /var/log disappear?
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 09:46:09AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: > I didn't make my /var partition big enough, way back when, and have had > to move my /var/log/www directory to another partition. I did this by > moving the directory, and then adding a soft link from /var/log to the > moved directory, using something like: > > ln -s /home/wwwlog /var/log/www > > This works great, but something is deleting the soft link. > > Is there anything in the freebsd base that 'cleans up' the /var/log > directory? Any hints on how I can discover what is doing this clean up, > or a way to protect this link from being deleted? Do you have log rotation set up? In order to do a clean copy when the file may still be held open by the www system, the rotator may delete and recreate the file. The rotator probably does not pay any attention to it being a link. This is just a big guess, but something to check on. I have many directories moved and linked to use other space and have no problem with it. It should work, but you may have to make the log rotator smarter - or change how the directory tree is set up.Something like: don't move and link the actual file/directory the logger writes to, but create a directory above it in the bigger space and then set up configuration to write to log files within it so there never has to be a link on the actual files on which the log rotator is working. jerry > > Thanks: John > > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Why does soft link in /var/log disappear?
I didn't make my /var partition big enough, way back when, and have had to move my /var/log/www directory to another partition. I did this by moving the directory, and then adding a soft link from /var/log to the moved directory, using something like: ln -s /home/wwwlog /var/log/www This works great, but something is deleting the soft link. Is there anything in the freebsd base that 'cleans up' the /var/log directory? Any hints on how I can discover what is doing this clean up, or a way to protect this link from being deleted? Thanks: John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
