[mythtv-users] Huge log files in mythbuntu

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Damian <damian at gingermagic.co.uk> wrote:
> Thanks for all the help. Here's the output from the three commands that
> James and Mike suggested.
>
> damian at MythBox:~$ grep "ARGS=" /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend
> /etc/default/mythtv-backend
> /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend:ARGS="--daemon --logfile
> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid"
> /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend:EXTRA_ARGS=""
> /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend:ARGS="$ARGS $EXTRA_ARGS"
> /etc/default/mythtv-backend:#ARGS=""
> /etc/default/mythtv-backend:#EXTRA_ARGS="--verbose"
> damian at MythBox:~$
>
> damian at MythBox:~$ grep "Enabled verbose msgs"
> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
> 2008-12-09 13:48:48.652 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
> 2008-12-09 14:26:56.295 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
> damian at MythBox:~$
>
> damian at MythBox:~$ ps -ef|grep mythbackend
> mythtv    5618     1  2 14:26 ?        00:06:44 /usr/bin/mythbackend
> --daemon --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --pidfile
> /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid
> damian    8235  8186  0 19:48 pts/1    00:00:00 grep mythbackend
> damian at MythBox:~$
>
>
> Can anyone help me decipher if there's anything wrong in there? Is it the:
> /etc/default/mythtv-backend:#EXTRA_ARGS="--verbose"
> line? And if so where to I change that setting?

At an educated guess I would say that -verbose is OFF because it is
commented out with the # at the start of the line. Also the ps -ef
output indicates that mythbackend is running without -v options.

So if your log files are being rotated, and you are running the log
files non-verbose, then something is troubling your system and you
should LOOK at the log files and see what it might be!