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

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Tue Jan 17 17:09:04 UTC 2006


On Sunday 15 January 2006 8:46, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> Robert Tsai wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >  
> >
> 
> Very nice!  I'll give that a try; thanks!

Thanks for the tip... turns out I fat-fingered the filename.  The 
logrotate configuration was looking for
"/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log", but mythbackend was logging to
"/var/log/mythbackend.log".

Thanks again,
JAC


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