On 6/18/07, César Amaya <csar at 123.com.sv> wrote:
> Andrew Hammond wrote:
> > There are plenty of options for handling log rotation. Apache's
> > rotatelogs works well. Personally I use DJB's multilog (as part of a
> > daemontools approach). If you're interested in using daemontools,
> > check out the tools/slon-mkservice.sh script (currently only in CVS /
> > the 1.2.10 pre-release tarballs).
> >
> > If you're already using logrotate, then I guess I could see sticking
> > with it. I don't see any good reason to pick it over the alternatives
> > for a first install though. I think that any solution that requires
> > copytruncate is poorly conceived, since the algorithm wastes IO. If
> > you must use logrotate, I'd consider simply killing and restarting the
> > slon as part of your rotation process.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> > On 6/18/07, Bill Willits <bwillits at cox.net> wrote:
> >> Yes, logrotate will work fine.  Make sure to use the 'copytruncate'
> >> option
> >>
> >> ~Bill Willits
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "César Amaya" <csar at 123.com.sv>
> >> To: <slony1-general at lists.slony.info>
> >> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 11:19 AM
> >> Subject: [Slony1-general] slony log rotate
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi guys!!! I´m newbie in Slony. I was wandering if is good idea rotate
> >> slony logs with another tool different from Apache´s rotatelogs. I plan
> >> to use logrotate.
> >>
> >> Can anyone give some light here please.
> >>
> >> Thanks guys!!!
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> Could you send me an example of your configurations files?

slon-mkservice.sh writes the configuration files for you. I've written
some documentation for it, and the defaults are, I think, reasonable
(at least on FreeBSD). Please try it out and let me know if you have
questions so I can improve the documentation.

Andrew