On 25/04/13 13:29, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Dom<toyer@???> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> It looks like mythlogserver is shutting itself down when I exit the
>> frontend, rather than aborting.
>
> After a google search the daemon stop if no mythtv process are
> running. Strange feature...
I suppose there is no reason to run the daemon if there are no mythtv
processes active to log. I think it gets started when any processes are
launched.
> Then the best is to use pkill instead of killall to kill the
> mythlogserver process. Normally pkill doesn't return an error if the
> process isn't running. What do you think ?
>
> ,----
> | /var/log/mythtv/*.log {
> | daily
> | rotate 7
> | notifempty
> | delaycompress
> | sharedscripts
> | compress
> | postrotate
> | pkill -HUP mythlogserver
> | endscript
> | su mythtv mythtv
> | }
> `----
That sounds like a good idea to me. I've modified the logrotate script
and report what it does tomorrow morning.
Thanks :)
--
Dom
