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Sounds like a very sane suggestion to me. -----Original Message----- From: Yang, Wei Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 2:20 PM To: Andrew Hanushevsky Cc: Lukasz Janyst ; Tanya Levshina ; Doug Benjamin ; Douglas Strain ; xrootd-dev Subject: Re: XRootD tag and RPMs while logrotate is a nice tool, the build in -k is a even nicer and simpler way to do this. I think -k can reduce just one more task T3 has to do, while those who has a need to use logrotate can remove -k from /etc/sysconfig/xrootd. regards, Wei Yang | [log in to unmask] | 650-926-3338(O) On May 12, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Andrew Hanushevsky wrote: > Let me weigh in. I suppose you can use log rotate in Linux but I doubt > most > sites would need any more flexibility than what xrootd provides by its > simple log rotate capability. Plus you would need to write a script to do > the actual log rotation beyond something what xrootd does as the log is > left > open until midnight after which time is renamed with a time stamp and that > is the log you need to rotate. Frankly, I don't see why we look for > complicated solutions when a simple one will do for the majority of > people. > If a site needs a complicated log rotate then they could do it for > themselves. A tier 3 site need not be saddled with default complexity. I > know that the feeling is that logrotate is simple and not complex. But > remember complexity is relative. > > Andy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lukasz Janyst > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 2:48 AM > To: Tanya Levshina > Cc: Doug Benjamin ; Douglas Strain ; xrootd-dev > Subject: Re: XRootD tag and RPMs > > Hi Tanya, > > we will cut the second rc after we do some testing with this one. > Your request raises a more general question of how we should handle > the log rotation. Specifying it as a parameter for xrootd in the > sysconfig file has an advantage of keeping all the settings together > but I would argue that we should use the standard logrotator (man 8 > logrotate) of Linux as it is far more flexible and is widely > considered as "the" tool for this sort of job which is what most > admins would probably expect. > > Let me know what you think. > > Cheers, > Lukasz > > 2011/5/12 Tanya Levshina <[log in to unmask]>: >> Hi Lukasz, >> >> Sorry, but I just have noticed that [-k NUM] option is still missing from >> /etc/sysconfig/xrootd configuration. This option controls the number of >> days the log files will be kept. >> >> Could you please add this and cut a new rc? >> >> Thanks a lot, >> Tanya >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Lukasz Janyst <[log in to unmask]> >> Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:58 am >> Subject: XRootD tag and RPMs >> To: xrootd-dev <[log in to unmask]>, Doug Benjamin >> <[log in to unmask]>, Tanya Levshina <[log in to unmask]>, Douglas >> Strain <[log in to unmask]> >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I have made a rc1 tag and built the RPMs which you can access here: >>> http://xrootd.cern.ch/sw/releases/3.0.4-rc1/ >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Lukasz >> >