On 9 October 2012 20:45, Simo Sorce <simo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 22:33 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 10:30:38PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: >> > Oh come on, stop bashing unix, logrotate could certainly grow a size >> > checking policy if people felt the need, unix is not holding you back, >> > in fact you are building this stuff on a unix-like system. >> >> In fact, logrotate _has_ a size checking policy and has for years. Possibly >> always. The main drawback is that with nightly runs, a log which grows >> suddenly during the day may grow out of control. > > Yeah I meant more of an online checker based on something like inotify > that would run the logrotate job ahead of time if needed. It's not > rocket science, but if it is not widespread it probably means that > either those in need use alternative log rotation tools, or people never > felt the urge to do it. At previous jobs I have seen it usually done by moving logrotate to every hour or smaller time frame using a custom config that only checked the sizes of files. I think they had some sort of inotify tool also but it had a tendency to go bonkers at times. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "Don't derail a useful feature for the 99% because you're not in it." Linus Torvalds "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
