[OpenAFS] Fileserver logfile size limit

Rainer Toebbicke rtb@pclella.cern.ch
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:01:26 +0200


Lars Wilke schrieb:

> 
> Another question is, how do i do logrotation.
> By which means do i get the fileserver to close
> the old log and open a new one. Can i use SIGTERM
> or some other signal here?
> 

You can just "mv" the fileserver log to something else. For a while, it'll 
write into the old file which is still open, every now and then it'll close it 
and at that point re-open a new one.

Don't know if anything forces the switch to the new one.

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