Dan Falconer wrote: > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 1:00 pm, Mark Stosberg wrote: >> Here's a report and a question on log rotation using the altperl tools, >> on FreeBSD. >> > [ --xxxx-- snip --xxxx--] >> So I tried the "APACHE_ROTATOR" method, which the altperl tools have >> built-in support for. >> >> That started creating new log files every 10 seconds, which also seemed >> like a bad idea! I created this patch to slon-tools.pm to only create >> one log file per day: > [ --xxxx-- snip --xxxx--] >> Even then, doesn't that leave me with a pruning job to do? I don't see >> the value of including the time stamp in the log file name. That just >> seems to complicate log file rotation and pruning, and is non-standard >> from what I've seen. > > I encountered this in Slony 1.2.6 as well: in 1.1.0, there was a > configuration parameter, "$ROTATE_TIME", which was fed to the apache rotator > instead of the arbitrary "10M". Ours was set to 86400 (every 24 hours). I > was assuming it was an oops, but I removed the APACHE_ROTATOR variable out of > my configuration files so it wouldn't even try to rotate them... which of > course means I have to manually restart slony every once in a while to avoid > running out of space.
Does it make more sense then to prune out the timestamp stuff out of the APACHE_ROTATOR line, and add the "86400" value back in? Then, would it still be necessary to purge logs every so often? Mark _______________________________________________ Slony1-general mailing list [email protected] http://gborg.postgresql.org/mailman/listinfo/slony1-general
