Bug#393658: boinc-client: Feature Request: logrotation

Frank S. Thomas frank at thomas-alfeld.de
Thu Nov 2 20:52:40 CET 2006


Hi,

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 12:38, Michael Setzer wrote:
> I think it would be a nice feature to have some sort of a logfile rotation,
> maybe using logrotate.
>
> As far as I can see the files stdoutdae.txt and stderrdae.txt are always
> growing so it might have sense to rotate them sometimes. 

The BOINC client renames stdout.txt and stderr.txt to stdout.old and 
stderr.old if they are bigger than 2 MB. So those four files should'nt occupy 
more than 8 MB of disk space. I don't think that we need additional logfile 
rotation.

Grüße,
Frank
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