> > As for logformat if I knew where this was coming from I wouldn’t have to > rotate logs - I’d just kill the logging. LDAP is only used in my > application (within PHP) not on the server itself (which is using it as a > different login with lighttpd). Ahh, that makes sense. -> Jake On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Jake Vath <jake.vath at gmail.com> wrote: > > I guess, what I was saying might not have been clear. > > If you used *rotatelogs* (or something to rotate the logs), wouldn't that > move *some_log_file.log* to *some_log_file.log.1* and recreate > *some_log_file.log?* > Then your scripts could remove *some_log_file.log.1*, which would create > a new file descriptor that references the newly created inode for > *some_log_file.log.* > When you delete *some_log_file.log.1* wouldn't that free up that file > descriptor and the inode which was referenced? > Wouldn't this force an update of the available inodes in the file table? > > > Yes, I believe so. But I haven’t been using rotatelogs at all so… I > wouldn’t know (even on my production servers - I have massive storage for > log files I’ve always compressed them once a year and burned them to > multiple media types for archiving). > > As for logformat if I knew where this was coming from I wouldn’t have to > rotate logs - I’d just kill the logging. LDAP is only used in my > application (within PHP) not on the server itself (which is using it as a > different login with lighttpd). > > > Using *rotatelogs or *Apache's *graceful* restart option should be > different than just running *$ :> some_log_file.log *or* $ cat /dev/null > > some_log_file.log*, > as both of those options retain the current inode in use. > However, I'm not entirely certain how either *rotatelogs or *Apache's > *graceful* restart option handles file descriptors/inodes. > I should probably go read some man pages... > > Anyone? Am I *way *off in my thinking? > > -> Jake > > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Jake Vath <jake.vath at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Could you use *graceful-restart *or *rotatelogs* to take care of this? >> I'm not sure that either of those would update any inodes though. >> >> Alternately, would you be able to edit the *LogFormat *to not include >> that information, in the log file, for the time being? >> >> -> Jake >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: >> >>> I’ll take a look, thanks! >>> On Dec 3, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Jeremy MountainJohnson < >>> jeremy.mountainjohnson at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > wipe and srm are possibilities too; although I would think there would >>> > be a better solution to this. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131203/9387a7cf/attachment-0001.html>