Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-11-28 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:53:54AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > Hi Joshua, > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 06:38:58PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:44:07PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > > If you had once configured many log files, and then change the > > > configuration

Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-11-22 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:53:54AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > It's not increasing but why doesn't svlogd delete extra log files? What > > is the design justification? > > logs is crucial data. I don't want svlogd to remove possibly tons of log > messages in many log files due to some temporar

Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-11-10 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi Joshua, On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 06:38:58PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:44:07PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > If you had once configured many log files, and then change the > > configuration to fewer log files than before, svlogd won't reduce the > > number of lo

Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-10-06 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:44:07PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > Thanks. Nothing looks wrong here, but why do you have that many .u > files? No idea. > If you had once configured many log files, and then change the > configuration to fewer log files than before, svlogd won't reduce the > number of

Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-10-06 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 05:07:26PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:19:41AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > can you post the complete listing of the directory holding the logs? > > total 156800 Thanks. Nothing looks wrong here, but why do you have that many .u files? >

Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-10-06 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:19:41AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > can you post the complete listing of the directory holding the logs? total 156800 -rw-r--r-- 1 log adm 246286 Jan 1 2002 @40003c31122e389cf92c.u -rw-r--r-- 1 log adm 71031 May 11 10:52 @40004462ca8137d95724.u -rw-r--r-- 1

Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-10-06 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:23:27PM +0530, Joshua Pritikin wrote: > I know this sounds implausible but my /var/log has grown to 487M. > For example, /var/log/dnscache has 335 log files and no svlogd > config. According to the man page, the default is to keep 10 old > logs. The directory permissions

Bug#391360: runit: svlogd is not removing old logs

2006-10-06 Thread Joshua Pritikin
Package: runit Version: 1.6.0-1 Severity: normal I know this sounds implausible but my /var/log has grown to 487M. For example, /var/log/dnscache has 335 log files and no svlogd config. According to the man page, the default is to keep 10 old logs. The directory permissions look right: drwxr-x---