| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andrew Hammond <ahammond(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_ctl patch to integrate apache's rotatelogs |
| Date: | 2004-05-15 04:06:38 |
| Message-ID: | 200405150406.i4F46cP04992@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Ouch. How long has that documentation been wrong? We have pointed
> > folks to that section of the docs tons of times, and no one mentioned
> > that "logrotate" is really "rotatelogs", and that it is missing
> > parameters?
>
> > I have applied the following patch to document rotatelogs properly.
>
> I think you just broke it. logrotate and rotatelogs are two different
> programs, and AFAIK the existing documentation correctly described the
> one that is easier to use with Postgres.
Oh, why don't I have logrotate. My system has:
rotatelogs - rotate Apache logs without having to kill the
server
rotatelogs logfile rotationtime [offset]
and it says it is Apache's. I must be wrong but can someone explain
this?
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