Automatic Log Rotation

[cbk1994]

It would be nice if we could configure logs to be automatically rotated. Even some kind of simplified logrotate options in server options would make the lives of administrators on large servers a lot easier and probably save you a lot of disk space as well (just deleted a 250 MB log file on Era).

Example of server options:

PHP Code:

logrotate=itemlog.txt,trading.txt
logrotate-itemlog.txt=30,daily,compress # keep 30 old logfiles, rotate daily, gzip old files
logrotate-trading.txt=15,10mb # keep 15 old logfiles, rotate when reaches 10 MB 


Syntax doesn't really matter, but it'd be really nice to not have to download huge files just to check a single line.



This should be a fairly simple addition which would be great for server staff and save Eurocenter quite a bit of storage space (the same file gzipped is about 13 MB).

[Emera]

Wouldn't you be able to load a log file and check how many lines it has, and if it's got more than so many lines, create a new file? That's what I would do.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by Emera

Wouldn't you be able to load a log file and check how many lines it has, and if it's got more than so many lines, create a new file? That's what I would do.

I don't think you can rename logs via script.

[Stephen]

wouldn't SQL logs solve this?

[Emera]

Originally Posted by Crow

I don't think you can rename logs via script.

PHP Code:

if (temp.linecount >= MAXLINES) {
  temp.logsave++;
}
savelog2("whatever_"@temp.logsave@".txt", temp.logsave); 


Wouldn't that be a solution?

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Emera

PHP Code:

if (temp.linecount >= MAXLINES) {
  temp.logsave++;
}
savelog2("whatever_"@temp.logsave@".txt", temp.logsave); 


Wouldn't that be a solution?

You can't edit the actual logs though, so they'd build up regardless.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Stephen

wouldn't SQL logs solve this?

Yes, but they come with additional problems. Logging is not a major problem on Era so I am not really that interested in redoing the entire system, even though it would benefit.

Originally Posted by Emera

PHP Code:

if (temp.linecount >= MAXLINES) {
  temp.logsave++;
}
savelog2("whatever_"@temp.logsave@".txt", temp.logsave); 


Wouldn't that be a solution?

Yes, but I'd like it to gzip and eventually delete old logs as well so that staff don't have to do this.

[Emera]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

You can't edit the actual logs though, so they'd build up regardless.

Oh I see. Sucks

[Emera]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Yes, but I'd like it to gzip and eventually delete old logs as well so that staff don't have to do this.

Ah :/