debian/patches/simplify-log-rotation.patch

   1 simplify logfile rotation
   2
   3 we simply rename <logfile> to <logfile>.1. That way we do not need
   4 any logrotate script. max_logfile is set to 256MB.
   5
   6
   7 Index: new/lib/logger.c
   8 ===================================================================
   9 --- new.orig/lib/logger.c       2013-02-28 07:15:26.000000000 +0100
  10 +++ new/lib/logger.c    2013-02-28 07:29:55.000000000 +0100
  11 @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
  12  static key_t semkey;
  13  static char *log_buff;
  14
  15 -static int64_t max_logsize = 500 * 1024 * 1024;  /*500MB*/
  16 +static int64_t max_logsize = 256 * 1024 * 1024;  /*500MB*/
  17
  18  static pthread_mutex_t logsize_lock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
  19
  20 @@ -243,13 +243,7 @@
  21
  22         if (access(log_nowname, R_OK) == 0) {
  23                 char old_logfile[256];
  24 -               time_t t;
  25 -               struct tm tm;
  26 -               time(&t);
  27 -               localtime_r((const time_t *)&t, &tm);
  28 -               sprintf(old_logfile, "%s.%04d-%02d-%02d-%02d-%02d",
  29 -                               log_nowname, tm.tm_year + 1900, tm.tm_mon + 1,
  30 -                               tm.tm_mday, tm.tm_hour, tm.tm_min);
  31 +               sprintf(old_logfile, "%s.1", log_nowname);
  32                 rename(log_nowname, old_logfile);
  33         }
  34         new_fd = open(log_nowname, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_APPEND, 0644);