[mythtv-users] Ad removal

[Raymond Wagner]

On 10/16/2013 7:41 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>> On 10/16/2013 7:10 PM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
>>>
>>> Been in similar situations before. I tend to shut down the process, such
>>> as the BE, rename the logfile and restart the process.
>>
>>
>> Why? Shutting down the backend and starting it again will cause the backend
>> to automatically write to a new log file.  Assuming it is actually using a
>> log file, it will not reuse the same log file.
>>
> When I look in /var/log/mythtv I see mythbackend.log as well as
> mythbackend.log1 and "2 and the dates therein make me think when the
> current log gets full 2 will become 3 and 1 will become 2 etc.

That's because MythTV is not logging to those files, but rather logging 
to syslog, which logs where ever syslog wants, and further splitting 
them up with logrotate.