Log Rotation

[Tim Penhey]

We don't give loggo a file at all, it is written to stdout (or stderr).

This is then handled by our upstart scripts and redirected into a file.

I *think* there are upstart hooks for log rotation as well, but I may
well be wrong on that.

Tim

On 18/07/14 08:27, Nate Finch wrote:
> So, as below, there is a request (again) to do log rotation.  For
> all-machines.log, this is pretty easy, it's just an rsyslog setting.
>  For each machine's machine-<tag>.log, I suggest we use my log rotation
> package - https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/natefinch/lumberjack.v2.  The nice
> thing about it is that it's easy to drop it into the current code.
>  Instead of giving loggo a file to write to, you give it a
> lumberjack.Logger.  Plus, it's cross-platform, so when we start
> deploying to Windows, we won't have to rework the log rotation (like we
> would if we used something like logrotate). 
> 
> Thoughts welcome.
> 
> -Nate
> 
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Alexis Bruemmer
> <alexis.bruemmer at canonical.com <mailto:alexis.bruemmer at canonical.com>>
> wrote:
> 
>     <ivoks> there is one bug, though
>     <ivoks> you need to investigate
>     <alexisb> which is?
>     <alexisb> or are you asking me?
>     <ivoks> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/juju/+bug/1078213
>     <ivoks> i was looking for it
>     <ivoks> i had two customers that filled their disks with juju logs
>     <alexisb> alrgith I will get eyes on it asap
>     <alexisb> thanks!
>     <ivoks> if you need it, i can give you a file that juju needs to
>     place in specific directory, and all would be fine
>     <ivoks> actually, let me write a patch for it :)
> 
>     Nate was looking at it today, but want to make sure you are aware it
>     came through.
> 
>     -- 
>     Alexis Bruemmer
>     Juju Core Manager, Canonical Ltd.
>     (503) 686-5018 <tel:%28503%29%20686-5018>
>     alexis.bruemmer at canonical.com <mailto:alexis.bruemmer at canonical.com>
> 
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