GitHub user danobi opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/274
TS-306 Enable log rotation for diags.log & traffic.out - The commit message contains an architectural overview of this feature - 'make test' and './traffic_server -R 1' all pass right now - Manual testing yields correct rotational behavior and unchanged behavior to access & error logs (eg. squid.log, error.log, etc) - Documentation is coming soon You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/danobi/trafficserver log-rotation-squashed Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/274.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #274 ---- commit 7be0a0d7f44505af2d2aa5e2ce85fb7e8c478a9e Author: Daniel Xu <danie...@yahoo-inc.com> Date: 2015-07-13T23:07:30Z TS-306 Enable log rotation for diags.log & traffic.out This feature provides the ability to rotate any log that is created by the Diags (including diags.log and manager.log) class, as well as traffic.out (the output log). These logs can be rotated either by time or by size, and both of these options can be specified in records.config [see documentation]. While the feature is relatively small, it required a rather large number of internal changes. Therefore, the _rest_ of this commit message will be a high level architectural overview of the changes necessitated by this feature. The class, BaseLogFile, is added and it is intended to be an abstraction for files on disk as well as the stdout/stderr stream. BaseLogFile is used by both LogFile and Diags to help control individual log files. For Diags, each BaseLogFile is created by DiagsConfig. DiagsConfig also sets a few more values unavailable to Diags. LogFile uses BaseLogFile to manage actual files on disk. In some rare cases, LogFile also uses BaseLogFile to manage a stdout or stderr stream. Most of the functionality in BaseLogFile was stripped from LogFile and moved into BaseLogFile. Originally, traffic.out was just a file whose file descriptor was dup2()âd from traffic_cop all the way to traffic_server (by way of fork()/exec()). With this patch, traffic_cop spawns the traffic_manager process with the location of traffic.out specified as flags (â-bind_stdout and -âbind_stderr). traffic_manager creates two BaseLogFile objects, one for each stdout and stderr, both mapped to traffic.out. traffic_manager then spawns the traffic_server process with the same flags, and traffic_server creates two BaseLogFiles in a similar fashion. As for the actual rotation, traffic_manager checks to see if traffic.out needs to be rotated once per iteration of traffic_managerâs main loop. As soon as traffic_manager rotates traffic.out, SIGUSR2 is sent from traffic_manager to traffic_server, and traffic_server catches SIGUSR2 and synchronizes its own BaseLogFiles with the newly created traffic.out file on disk. For rotation of diags.log, a continuation is scheduled every second in traffic_server to see if diags.log needs rotation, and then proceeds to rotate if necessary. manager.log is checked for rotation right after traffic.out is checked for rotation in the main loop of traffic_manager. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---