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shepherd services with #:log-file overwrite their log file

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Message #27 received at 30649-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
Cc: 30649-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30649: Cuirass service does not rotate its logs
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:47:55 +0100

Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr> skribis:

> On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 05:35:54PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> The cuirass service in GuixSD explicitly extends rottlog so that this
>> file is rotated on a weekly basis.  Perhaps you just need to wait a
>> little longer?
>
> The problem is not that the file grows too large.
>
> The problem was that after rebooting the server, the file was *replaced*
> with newly written content. Maybe the problem is not rotation, but opening
> a file in "write" instead of "append" mode...

Oh indeed, that’s a different thing.

This is fixed by Shepherd commit
7b4c88bac70f0bad82ef70fd5b682a49bc227478, thanks!

Ludo’.

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