| From: | "Ed L(dot)" <pgsql(at)bluepolka(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: more contrib: log rotator |
| Date: | 2003-04-04 19:10:13 |
| Message-ID: | 200304041210.13831.pgsql@bluepolka.net |
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On Friday April 4 2003 11:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> "scott.marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> writes:
> > rotatelogs is in my path and all, it just never sees it.
>
> You mean the command fails? Or just that it doesn't capture output?
>
> > "$po_path" ${1+"$@"} </dev/null | $PGPATH/rotatelogs $logfile $DURATION
> > 2>&1 &
>
> Most if not all of the postmaster's log output goes to stderr, so you'd
> need
>
> "$po_path" ${1+"$@"} </dev/null 2>&1 | $PGPATH/rotatelogs ...
>
> to have any hope of useful results.
Hmmm. I would have agreed 2>&1 was needed, too, but this command seems to
routinely capture all output, including ERRORs:
nohup pg_ctl start | nohup rotatelogs server_log.%a 86400
Ed
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