[mythtv-users] Log file splitting

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu Nov 21 19:34:25 UTC 2013


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Meek" <keemllib at gmail.com>

> No idea where to find discussions, other than searching this list's
> archives.
> 
> The choice of log file output is yours to make. Sounds like you start
> your backend with --logpath <someDirectory> and so your log names look
> like: mythbackend.20131120223320.3372.log.
> 
> That's my preference and if you only need to access the currently
> active
> log, then something like this works well:
> 
> tailf `ls -t /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.*.log|head -1`
> 
> If you do --syslog local7, for example, the output ends up in syslog.
> Or,
> you can see/use
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Simple_rsyslog_Configuration
> to put the MythTV files elsewhere (like /var/log/mythtv.)
> 
> I haven't tried it, but with 0.27 *and* mythlogserver off, you'd
> likely
> want the 0.25 solution to the Wiki rather than the 0.2[67] one.

Thanks, Bill; I think I'll probably run it through syslog; I know how
to drive that.

Cheers,
-- jra

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