Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of LogRotate

Timestamp:

Apr 24, 2007, 7:20:21 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Nicolas

Comment:

Required manual changes to automatic script formatting. That means removing two silly spaces! Script is improving :)

LogRotate

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 = Log rotation =
 
-      The log files generated by BOINC's daemons and servers can grow to gigabyte size in a few days or weeks, and will eventually fill up your disk. When this happens your project will grind to a halt. In addition, if you use db_dump to export statistics, directories with names of the form '''html/stats_2006_4_3_15_50_2''' will build up, and you'll need to delete and possibly archive them. Most projects do this manually.
+The log files generated by BOINC's daemons and servers can grow to gigabyte size in a few days or weeks, and will eventually fill up your disk. When this happens your project will grind to a halt. In addition, if you use db_dump to export statistics, directories with names of the form '''html/stats_2006_4_3_15_50_2''' will build up, and you'll need to delete and possibly archive them. Most projects do this manually.
 
 Initially you can deal with log files by hand, but eventually you may want an automated solution. Log rotation typically must be done while the project is [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/tool_start.php stopped].
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 Here's a shell script (from Nicolas Alvarez) that tars and compresses log files (you'll still need to eventually deal with the compressed files). You can run this script as a periodic task in [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/configuration.php config.xml].
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