Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-11-28 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:53:54AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: Hi Joshua, On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 06:38:58PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:44:07PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: If you had once configured many log files, and then change the configuration to fewer

Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-11-22 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:53:54AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: It's not increasing but why doesn't svlogd delete extra log files? What is the design justification? logs is crucial data. I don't want svlogd to remove possibly tons of log messages in many log files due to some temporary

Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-11-10 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi Joshua, On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 06:38:58PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:44:07PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: If you had once configured many log files, and then change the configuration to fewer log files than before, svlogd won't reduce the number of log

Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-10-06 Thread Joshua Pritikin
Package: runit Version: 1.6.0-1 Severity: normal I know this sounds implausible but my /var/log has grown to 487M. For example, /var/log/dnscache has 335 log files and no svlogd config. According to the man page, the default is to keep 10 old logs. The directory permissions look right:

Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-10-06 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:23:27PM +0530, Joshua Pritikin wrote: I know this sounds implausible but my /var/log has grown to 487M. For example, /var/log/dnscache has 335 log files and no svlogd config. According to the man page, the default is to keep 10 old logs. The directory permissions

Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-10-06 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:19:41AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: can you post the complete listing of the directory holding the logs? total 156800 -rw-r--r-- 1 log adm 246286 Jan 1 2002 @40003c31122e389cf92c.u -rw-r--r-- 1 log adm 71031 May 11 10:52 @40004462ca8137d95724.u -rw-r--r-- 1

Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-10-06 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 05:07:26PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:19:41AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: can you post the complete listing of the directory holding the logs? total 156800 Thanks. Nothing looks wrong here, but why do you have that many .u files?

Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-10-06 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:44:07PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: Thanks. Nothing looks wrong here, but why do you have that many .u files? No idea. If you had once configured many log files, and then change the configuration to fewer log files than before, svlogd won't reduce the number of log