Re: How to rotate postgres logfiles

Hi ,

This question has been asked before in the list
by me.

and below is an workable solution provided by Gaetano

regds
mallah.

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Well,
the most correct way to do a logrotate is ( Redhat ):

1) Put on your postgresql.conf the following lines:

syslog = 2
syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0'
syslog_ident = 'postgres'

2) Put on the directory /etc/logrotate.d a file called
'postgres' with the following lines:

/var/log/postgresql.log {
compress
rotate 2
size=10000k
errors mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com
create 0664 postgres postgres
daily
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}

change the email address of course :-)

3) Put the following line on your /etc/syslog.conf

# Save postgresql logs
LOCAL0.*
/var/log/postgresql.log

Ciao
Gaetano

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On Monday 27 May 2002 05:20 pm, Ferdinand Smit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to flush the logfiles op postgres. I need it for
> logrotate.
> '/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_ctl reload' does not work, it does not create a
> new logfile.
>
> Regards,
> Ferdinand
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