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

[Robert Tsai]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 08:46:16AM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> 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...

You could try running manually:

	logrotate -d -v -s /var/lib/logrotate/status logrotate.conf

and it will tell you why it thinks something doesn't need to be
rotated.

Substitute /var/lib/logrotate/status (breezy) with the path to your
distribution's system logrotate.status file.

--Rob
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