[libvirt] [PATCH] news: Update for 3.9.0 release
John Ferlan
jferlan at redhat.com
Thu Nov 2 10:01:00 UTC 2017
>>> + constraints that log have to be bigger than 100 KiB before they can
>>> + be rotated solves the issue.
>>
>> s/issue.$/issue. However, this may increase the number of files until
>> they are automatically rotated.
>
> I don't think that's true: the same number of log files will be
> created, it's just that now more files will be rotated. So I left
> out that part.
>
I was just reading the commit '6c43149c4':
" Dropping 'minsize 100k' allows rotating small files, which will
increase the number of log files, but 'rotate 4' ensures they will
be removed after a month.
"
and trying to extrapolate. I'm fine with dropping it though. We really
need to get better at making the author of a series do this stuff!
John
>> (Personally, not quite sure how that rotation actually occurs).
>
> Not sure myself. I think the logrotate profile is installed along
> with libvirt, but you have to enable it explicitly for rotation to
> actually occur?
>
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