[mythtv-users] Database filled up first partition
chris at cpr.homelinux.net
chris at cpr.homelinux.net
Sat Sep 2 05:19:26 UTC 2006
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 12:12:54AM -0400, Robert Tsai wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 05:46:51PM -0700, chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 09:05:42PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log {
> > # Keep logs until they are 2 months old or the number of
> > # logs reaches 12. If the log files stay small, the age will
> > # kick in first and you'll only have 8 log files. If they
> > # get larger than 10Mb then you won't keep all 60 days.
> > rotate 12
> > maxage 60
> > }
>
> Unless you regularly restart mythbackend, you'll need a
> "pkill -HUP mythbackend" somewhere in there ...
I assume the HUP signal tells Myth to close and reopen the log file?
Even without doing that, the 'copytruncate' option in logrotate handles
the issue of open handles. I simply specified it in the "global" part
of the config file since it's used for both logs.
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