[mythtv-users] Limit log file size?

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Nick Morrott

Thanks Nick.

OK, I see that either the Myth or Gentoo folks provided a logrotate
file but it's not set up to rotate automatically so I'll have to learn
how to do that. I suppose that's done with cron - another Linux app I
know nothing much about?

Cheers,
Mark