Re: Log rotation

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Log rotation
Date: 2004-03-16 00:14:05
Message-ID: 405646CD.2010407@commandprompt.com
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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:45:35AM -0500, Rod Taylor wrote:
>
>>Not that I'm volunteering, but I think the biggest issue is many users
>>simply don't know how to approach the problem. Some docs on using
>>syslog, cron, etc. with PostgreSQL to accomplish maintenace jobs would
>>probably be enough.
>
>
> There is the basic problem that if you don't have root on your host,
> setting up syslog is one more thing you have to get the rootly ones
> to do. Some of them are, uh, challenged in that area.

What a polite way to say that they have zero business logging in as root ;)

>
> A
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