[OpenAFS] Proposed changes for server log rotation

[Hartmut Reuter]

chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:22:11 -0500
> Michael Meffie<mmeffie@sinenomine.net>  wrote:
>
>> The key point is that currently some sites may be relying on
>> weekly restarts and the current rename from FileLog to FileLog.old
>> to avoid filling a disk partition. I think a more sensible approach
>> in long term, for sites that choose to log to regular files,
>> is to just let the server append, and let the modern log rotate
>> tool of your choice deal with the log rotation.
>
> perhaps the absolute minimum would be to implement a signal that causes
> the log files to be closed and reopened just like a restart.  this
> could be issued weekly via bosserver to emulate the restart behavior.
> people want new behavior like syslog, would need opt in and change
> command line params (eventually switch to this as the default).

This signal already exists: "kill -HUP" is executed by a cron job at our site 
each midnight to close all server logs. If you set mrafsStyleLogs you also
get nice date and time suffixes instead of ".old".

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