On 2024-11-14, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/14/24 12:03 AM, Left Right wrote: >>> On any Unix system this is untrue. Rotating a log file is quite simple: >> >> I realized I posted this without cc'ing the list: >> http://jdebp.info/FGA/do-not-use-logrotate.html . >> >> The link above gives a more detailed description of why log rotation >> on the Unix system is not only not simple, but is, in fact, >> unreliable. > > Nothing in that article contradicts what I said about renaming log > files. His argument is that renaming log files messes with tail -F, and > therefore broken and unreliable. Which a pretty strange argument. tail > -F might not see some data during the rotation, but the log files > themselves don't miss anything, which was my contention. In all my > years of sysadmin-ing I have never once worried about problems GNU tail > might have with a file that gets rotated out from under you. Not sure > why the author is so fixated on it.
I really wouldn't worry about anything Jonathan de Boyne Pollard says. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
