Bug 179855 – portage has no logrotate configuration for emerge.log

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 52675
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Jerome 2007-05-26 10:43:29 UTC]

localhost ~ # du -sh /var/log/emerge.log
1.4M    /var/log/emerge.log
localhost ~ # grep 'Started emerge' /var/log/emerge.log | head -1
1164072354: Started emerge on: Nov 21, 2006 01:25:54
localhost ~ # grep 'Started emerge' /var/log/emerge.log | tail -1
1180171756: Started emerge on: May 26, 2007 11:29:16
localhost ~ #  

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
add the following config file to /etc/logrotate.d:
---
/var/log/emerge.log {
           monthly
           rotate 9
           compress
           prerotate
               /bin/killall -STOP emerge
           endscript
           postrotate
               /bin/killall -CONT emerge
           endscript
}
---

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-05-26 10:46:36 UTC]

This is not supposed to be rotated automagically, will just breaks lots of tools that need the log there untruncated.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 52675 ***