[mythtv-users] Logrotate settings for mythbackend.log?

Robert Tsai rtsai1111 at comcast.net
Tue Jan 17 16:16:24 UTC 2006


On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:12:29AM -0500, Robert Tsai wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:39:05AM -0800, Jonathan Tidmore wrote:
> > On 1/17/06, Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:
> > > No, signal HUP means "reload and start a new config file" (a
> > > proces can do what ever it wants with a HUP signal, but most of
> > > the times it's used to rotate the logfiles).
> > 
> > This may be true for most programs, but like you said, a process can
> > do what it wants with a HUP signal.  Some may restart, some may
> > exit, some may do nothing.  Point is, do we know what mythbackend
> > does with a HUP signal?
> 
> You would if you bothered searching:
> 
> 	http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/search?q=SIGHUP&wiki=on&changeset=on&ticket=on

Note: this is for SVN and not in 0.18 (don't know about -fixes). If
you try this with some older mythbackend you will probably just kill
it.

--Rob
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