Logrotate - mythbackend
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For most distros, save the configuration file to /etc/logrotate.d/mythbackend
Log rotation with --logpath logging
This configuration will work with standard MythTV logging using the --logpath argument.
| Author | unknown |
| Description | Example configuration file for using logrotate to rotate your mythbackend log files when using --logpath. |
| Supports | 
|
/etc/logrotate.d/mythbackend
/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend*.log {
weekly
rotate 8
missingok
ifempty
nocreate
nocompress
sharedscripts
olddir /var/log/mythtv/old
postrotate
killall -HUP mythbackend
find /var/log/mythtv/old -name 'mythbackend*' -type f -mtime +30 -delete
endscript
}
Log rotation with --syslog logging
This logrotate configuration will only work with specific log file names. If you use the --logpath argument to mythbackend, the log file name will include date and process ID information, meaning it will be different for each run of mythbackend. Therefore, this approach can only be used if you configure mythbackend to use syslog logging and configure syslog to use static file names.
| Author | unknown |
| Description | Example configuration file for using logrotate to rotate your mythbackend log files when using --syslog. |
| Supports |
|
/etc/logrotate.d/mythbackend
/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log {
weekly
rotate 8
missingok
notifempty
compress
compresscmd /usr/bin/bzip2
uncompresscmd /usr/bin/bunzip2
compressext .bz2
delaycompress
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mythbackend.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
}
