[mythtv-users] --logfile vs. --logpath

[R. G. Newbury]

On 05/17/2012 03:23 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>> On 5/17/2012 14:06, Stephan Seitz wrote:
>>>
>>> I’m really wondering who thought the change from logfile to logpath was
>>> a good idea. While you now have logfiles according to the name of
>>> process (e.g. mythbackend or mythpreviewgen), the names contain
>>> „cryptic” things like PID and date. How can you now configure any
>>> logrotation program to rotate the right logfiles?
>>
>>
>> Wildcards and manual postrotate definitions.
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Logrotate_-_mythfrontend
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Logrotate_-_mythbackend
>
> What I'd really like to see is a sane logrotate config for mythpreviewgen... :)

I was actually thinking of an every minute cron job to just delete them. 
I can see exactly no value for these particular logs.

Geoff