[mythtv-users] Logrotate settings for mythbackend.log?

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Sat Jan 14 13:46:16 UTC 2006


Adam Bodnar wrote:
> Just a thought, but could be part of the reason it's not working is
> caue you have it set to rotate at 100 megs?
> 
> Mine is set to:
> 
> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log {
>     notifempty
>     missingok
>     compress
>     compresscmd /usr/bin/bzip2
>     uncompresscmd /usr/bin/bunzip2
>     compressext .bz2
>     weekly
>     rotate 4
>     size 10M
> }
> 
> and my log is only 3 megs and been running since July of 2005. So
> unless you have alot of output, I don't think you'd hit that 100 megs
> anytime soon.
> 
> Don't quote me on this though.
> 

I forgot to mention that the offending logfile is now > 400MB and growing...

-JAC



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