[mythtv-users] Limit log file size?

[Nick Morrott]

2009/12/6 Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com>:
> I'm not finding this when I search through the on-line docs. For the
> older 0.21 version how do I limit the size of the mythbackend.log
> file?
>
> I'd like to limit both the size, and if possible make it a little less verbose.
>
> The distro is Gentoo. I found the /etc/conf.d/mythbackend config file
> and set it to
>
> MYTH_VERBOSE="important,general"
>
> but it still seems a bit too much. Each recording and viewing is

Reduce that to 'important' only for even less output. However, I find
my backend/frontend logfile sizes irrelevant when rotated weekly.

> adding anywhere from 20 to 50 lines so it's stll going to grow sort of
> quickly. Is there a place I can limit overall file size?

Not within MythTV. One way to handle this is to use logrotate and have
the logfile rotated and compressed when it hits a particular size. I
keep 8 weeks of logs - looking at my compressed logs I see average
filesizes of 20KB for the frontend, and 50KB for the backend which
were generated from logs of approx 700KB and 250KB respectively.

Cheers,
Nick

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