[mythtv-users] mythbackend.log is buffered?

[Mike Perkins]

On 25/10/15 20:22, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> [0.27.4, Fedora 22]
>
> I've been tail-ing my /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log and after this morning's logrotate it's gone. No more file to tail. A new .bz2 from the rotation, but no new .log. Myth stuff is getting written to /var/log/messages, and the BE is running thusly:
>
> 32247 ?        Ssl  183:54 /usr/bin/mythbackend --logpath /var/log/mythtv
>
> I've meant to write this message before, been delayed, gone to check back and seen it's there and blamed inattention.
>
> I'm pretty sure it'll come back - it has every week apparently since there are a number of bz2 backups, but right now, where is it?
>
My guess is that your 'tail' prevented the log from being closed and zipped. What happened to the 
new log I can't explain - assuming there /was/ a new log created, that isn't certain.

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Mike Perkins