[distcc] Re: Bug#203747: distcc should rotate distccd logs
Martin Pool
mbp at sourcefrog.net
Tue Aug 5 00:56:53 GMT 2003
On 1 Aug 2003, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> logrotate has the ability to copy the logfile and truncate the existing so
> that you may not have to restart/send signals to the process. It is called
> copytruncate but it might loose some data between copying and truncating.
That sounds good.
> My package had a logrotate file, but it seems not to work using
> copytruncate and I'm not sure why. Is distcc just appending to the file ?
Yes, I think so.
> /var/log/distccd.log {
> missingok
> copytruncate
> notifempty
> }
Let me test this.
--
Martin
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