[mythtv] mythpreviewgen creating excessive number of logs?

[Gavin Hurlbut]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I finally updated my system to 0.25 (I know, since I maintain it for
> RPM Fusion I should be an earlier adopter, but the WAF takes
> precedence).
>
> It seems that mythpreviewgen creates a lot of log files and I can't
> see how this helpful.. I only updated last night and I already have:
>
> mythpreviewgen.20120423210826.6528.log
> mythpreviewgen.20120423210826.6533.log
> mythpreviewgen.20120423210826.6534.log
> mythpreviewgen.20120423210826.6535.log
> mythpreviewgen.20120423210826.6538.log
> mythpreviewgen.20120423210827.6542.log
> mythpreviewgen.20120423210830.6607.log
> mythpreviewgen.20120424073001.10217.log
> mythpreviewgen.20120424080001.10299.log
> mythpreviewgen.20120424083001.10419.log
> mythpreviewgen.20120424100002.10656.log
>
> Is this intentional?

Yes.  It is intentional, and it is very helpful when debugging.  If
you want to log to only one file, etc, and have to split them up to
report bugs, I would suggest using syslog logging.

Also, the logfiles are easily kept under control with the use of
logrotate (I have a config that works just fine, it was supposed to be
put onto the wiki, but isn't there yet).  For debugging, the software,
it really is helpful to have these split out as they are.