Re: rotatelog / logrotate with PostgreSQL

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:09:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org> writes:
> >     Tom> Should work to just pipe the postmaster's stderr into it, eg
> >     Tom>     postmaster ... 2>&1 | logrotate ...  &
>
> > Huh?  logrotate moves a log file, it doesn't log anything.
>
> My mistake; I was assuming that that script did something else.
> What PG is able to work with is a script that absorbs input on
> stdin and sends it to a rotatable logfile.  Surely there are some
> of those out there.
Are You looking for cronolog (http://www.cronolog.org/)? It sucks the output
of a daemon and manages the logfiles.

Greetings,
-tb
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Thomas Beutin                             tb@laokoon.IN-Berlin.DE
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