Re: Log rotation

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com>, Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Log rotation
Date: 2004-03-14 18:59:54
Message-ID: 23808.1079290794@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> What versions of syslog fsync, and where is the syslog.conf option. I
> don't see it on FreeBSD or Linux.

It's a per-output-file option. My Linux manpage for syslogd quoth

The - may only be used to prefix a filename if you want to omit
sync'ing the file after every write to it.

I believe this notation is inherited from BSD. I don't see anything
about it in the HPUX man page for syslogd, though.

regards, tom lane

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