Re: logrotate errors for mythlogserver with frontend only

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著者: Dom
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To: dmo-discussion
題目: Re: logrotate errors for mythlogserver with frontend only
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