RE: [munin-users] Logfile Rotation

[<Ral...@it...>]

Thanks Lupe for reminding me of the partly buggy state of
Net::Server.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lupe Christoph [mailto:lu...@lu...]
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 12:24 PM
> To: Grothe, Ralph
> Cc: mun...@li...
> Subject: Re: [munin-users] Logfile Rotation
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> Quoting Ral...@it...:
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> > Now I wonder if any postrotate signalling or similar is
necessary
> > to cleanly
> > have them released.
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> > Probably this is only necessary for munin-node's log,
> > who as I found out is SIGHUP aware.
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> Correct. But the Code in Server::Fork has problems. Plus, old
perls
> are unreliable when it comes to signals. For FreeBSD4 which=20
> has sucn an
> old perl I have written a script that starts munin-node if it
failed
> after the HUP signal.
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> Please see the FreeBSD section of the Muninn distribution,=20
> and the following
> CPAN tickets:
>   http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=3D17090 (still
unfixed)
>   http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=3D14155
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> > Because it is logging less than the utilities I would think
it be
> > sufficient
> > to rotate munin-node.log monthly with a postrotate command
> > similar to
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> >  kill -1 $(cat $(awk '$1~/^pid_file/{print$2}'
> > /etc/opt/munin/munin-node.conf))
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> > Can you confirm, or disagree?
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> That is correct. Just make sure that Net::Server is patched
locally
> until the author fixes this bug.
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> HTH,
> Lupe Christoph
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> PS: I'm not sure if the FreeBSD section in 1.2.4 has everything
I did
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> 1.2_current in SVN.
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