[Help-gnunet] NOTE in junktion with logrotate

[Christian Muellner]

You must use the 'copytruncate' command in your logrotate.conf.
If not you gnunetd will not write a new logfile until it has been restarted, 
because logrotate remove the original file completely. With 'copytruncate' it 
sets its size to zero. Some programs (like gnunetd) need this.


-------------  My configfile looks like  ---------

compress

/var/log/gnunet/gnunet.log {

        rotate 2
        size=75k
        copytruncate
        }
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That generates max. 2 compresses logfiles if the original logfile has more 
than 75k.


------------   My Crontab -----------------------

# Logrotate fuer gnunet logfile
*/30 * * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate /home/chris/.gnunet/gnunet.logrotate.conf 
-s/var/log/gnunet/status /

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This runs the logrotate all 30 minutes (with DEBUGLEVEL=9 you got BIG 
logfiles), i hope. Soon i will see.




BTW: On my Debian/Woody system i must restart the cron-daemon before it 
recognize my crontab. Is this normal?? I think not.


Happy logging and debugging :-)


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