Great idea. +1 On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:06 AM Steven R. Feltner <sfelt...@godaddy.com> wrote:
> > +1 > > On 1/24/20, 10:43 AM, "Leif Hedstrom" <zw...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On Jan 24, 2020, at 10:06 AM, Bryan Call <bc...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > +1 - supports the UNIX Philosophy of having each program do one > thing well > > +1. > > Someone please tell that to the systemd people too … > > — Leif > > > > > -Bryan > > > > > >> On Jan 23, 2020, at 9:16 AM, Brian Neradt <brian.ner...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Context > >> ====== > >> > >> Traffic Server currently implements its own mechanism for rotating > its logs > >> and cleaning up (i.e., deleting) rotated logs based upon configured > >> constraints. These features seem to have been developed at a time > when > >> third party tools for managing such logs were non-existent or > immature. > >> Today administrators have tools such as logrotate they can use to > manage > >> logs. Such tools handle log rotation and deletion (and compression, > >> automated emailing, and other related features) in a way that > >> administrators are generally familiar with and would prefer to use > for > >> consistency across their log management needs. After rotating their > logs, > >> these tools send a signal to the process generating the logs so > they can > >> close and re-open the logs. Traffic Server does not currently > support > >> external log managers because it does not support listening for such > >> signals. > >> > >> Proposal > >> ======= > >> > >> In order to support the use of tools such as logrotate, this > proposal > >> suggests adding support for Traffic Manager and Traffic Server to > handle a > >> signal that causes those processes to close and re-open their logs > handles. > >> > >> Further, while SIGHUP is a pretty common signal used for such > purposes, > >> this proposes SIGUSR2 instead since we already use that for > traffic.out > >> (added via https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/274/files). > >> > >> > >> Please share any thoughts or suggestions. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Brian > >> -- > >> "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will > >> give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for > >> I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for > >> your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." > >> > >> ~ Matthew 11:28-30 > > > > > >
