Re: [mh] Change to log file truncation on startup

[Ralph M. <ral...@gm...>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Troy Carpenter <tr...@ca...> wrote:

> On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:57:50 am Gregg Liming wrote:
>
> >
> > I can see reasons for both behaviors.  So, perhaps introduce an ini
> > parm, log_file_mode, that would control whether it is replace or
> > append--with "replace" being the default since it already is (thereby
> > not impacting users that may already rely on the default behavior).
> >
> > Gregg
>
> Make it a bit more complicated...add a third behavior to have it back up
> the
> old console file at startup and start a new one.  Have a ini variable to
> specify how many backups to keep.  This would increase startup time if the
> console log is big.


It shouldn't take too much time.  Don't copy, just rename:

   rm  log.3
   mv  log.2  log.3
   mv  log.1  log.2
   mv  log     log.1

Ralph Mitchell