Logrotate - all applications
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killall -HUP mythfrontend | killall -HUP mythfrontend | ||
killall -HUP mythlcdserver | killall -HUP mythlcdserver | ||
| − | find /var/log/mythtv/old | + | find /var/log/mythtv/old -type f -mtime +30 -delete |
endscript | endscript | ||
} | } | ||
Revision as of 14:16, 21 July 2012
For most distros, save the configuration file to /etc/logrotate.d/mythtv
Log rotation with --logpath logging
This configuration will work with MythTV logging for all MythTV applications using either the --logpath or --syslog argument. If using this configuration, other MythTV logrotate configuration files are unnecessary.
| Author | unknown |
| Description | Example configuration file for using logrotate to rotate your MythTV log files. |
| Supports | 
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/etc/logrotate.d/mythtv
/var/log/mythtv/*.log {
weekly
rotate 8
missingok
ifempty
nocreate
nocompress
sharedscripts
olddir /var/log/mythtv/old
lastaction
killall -HUP mythbackend
killall -HUP mythfrontend
killall -HUP mythlcdserver
find /var/log/mythtv/old -type f -mtime +30 -delete
endscript
}
