[mythtv-users] Logrotate settings for mythbackend.log?
Stef Coene
stef.coene at docum.org
Tue Jan 17 11:02:54 UTC 2006
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 10:36, Phill Edwards wrote:
> > /var/log/myth/mythbackend.log {
> > size 32M
> > postrotate
> > kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mythbackend.pid`
> > 2>/dev/null endscript
> > }
>
> Out of interest, won't this config kill mythbackend and therefore
> terminate any recordings that are being made or watched?
No, signal HUP means "reload and start a new config file" (a proces can do
what ever it wants with a HUP signal, but most of the times it's used to
rotate the logfiles).
Stef
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