Re: Definitive logrotate solution?

How do you ensure you're not keeping logs from 35+ days ago, or whatever?
Just a find -mtime +10 -exec rm {}\; kind of thing?

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Wells Oliver <wellsoliver(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Might anyone share theirs? My log_rotation is set to 'stderr', and the
> log
> > files are being put into /var/log/postgresql.
>
> > My main concern is the postrotate action-- want to make sure the log is
> > properly rotated, unneeded older logs removed, and postgres... properly
> > bounced?
>
> Use the logging collector with its built-in rotation parameters, and you
> don't need anything else.
>
> If you insist on an external solution, there's basically no way except
> to shut down and restart postgres after any rotation, because there are
> going to be N processes all connected to the same stderr file descriptor.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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