[OpenAFS-devel] rethinking log rotation

[Steve Simmons]

On Jan 28, 2015, at 11:03 AM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR =
<chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:

> You could actually make bosserver forward the 'reopen the logs' signal
> to the various processes.  logrotate certainly supports this for httpd
> -- it has at least two log files that need rotated on the same signal.

This. Logrotate already has the tools to make this happen in a safe =
manner (no data loss). But it requires a command-line interface so =
logrotate can tell the application to simply close and re-open the log =
file. It works for [r]syslogd, httpd, etc, etc. A bos command that tells =
the running *server utils to close/reopen the logs is all that's needed.

I am *strongly* opposed to building our own log rotation stuff inside =
bos/etc; ultimately you wind up replicating what logrotate already does =
for you. And usually in a less flexible manner.=20=