Re: [Condor-users] Why does condor touch all logs/*Log files?

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Todd Tannenbaum wrote:
> Ian Stokes-Rees wrote:
> >   It would make my life much easier if condor did not touch all the log 
> > files in logs/*Logs.  The dates are always "now", even though the 
> > contents for many of them have not been changed for hours or even days.  
> > I can imagine why this happens, but really it would be better if the 
> > files were only written to when there was something to write.
>
> Ask, and you shall receive.  :).
>
> You can disable log touching feature by setting TOUCH_LOG_INTERVAL in 
> your condor_config file(s) to specify the number of seconds between each 
> touch, and then doing a condor_reconfig.  By default this parameter is 
> 60 seconds.
>
> So to disable try something like
>    TOUCH_LOG_INTERVAL = 999999

Forgot to mention -

I think the only downside of doing this is when a Condor daemon 
restarts, it won't have an accurate idea of how long it was down.  I 
believe this information is only used for logging purposes (for now).


-Todd