Re: [Condor-users] Truncate, rotate or archive history file?

[Chris Green <greenc@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thanks for this. Now I know that I don't have to take special measure 
(HUPing daemons, etc), I'll just do a logrotate config file.

Thanks for your help,
Chris.

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Daniel Forrest wrote:

> Chris,
>
> > Our HISTORY files on each of our Condor nodes is getting large. Is
> > there some way to safely truncate and archive this file without
> > shutting down a daemon, or configure it to be done automatically?
>
> You can just "mv" it to a new name, a new file will be created.
>
> What I do is keep a hard link to "history" named "history.YYYYMM".
> At the start of the month I can simply delete "history".  In this case
> I also create a new "history" myself so I can make a new hard link.
>
> I do this automatically with a cron job:
>
> 0 0 1 * * cd /exports/condor/spool && rm history && touch history && ln history $(date +history.\%Y\%m)

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