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Hi Doug,

   good question. Probably not. I will check.

Cheers,
   Lukasz

2011/5/12 Doug Benjamin <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear Lukasz,
>
>   I agree that using the linux standard logrotator tool is the best way to go.
> Does log rotator require xrootd to start and stop so that the pointers to the files
> are disconnected during the rotation.
>
> Doug
>
> On May 12, 2011, at 2:48 AM, Lukasz Janyst wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
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