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.
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Script.png /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.
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Script.png /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
}