Re: Current log files when rotating?

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 20:55 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:44:31AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Hmm what about just "ls -tu"
> > Which if I am reading the man page correctly sorts by last access time.
>
> which might not be what you need. the problem is that there is no
> guarantee that the last "accessed" file is the current one.
>
> on the other hand - there is also no such guarantee for current being
> "last after sorting", so there is a room for failure here anyway.
>
> the only way to do it without having problems with "strange" names or
> dates of access:
>
> ps uw -C postgres | grep logger | awk '{print "/proc/"$2"/fd"}' | xargs ls -l | grep /var/log/postgresql | awk
'{print$NF}' | xargs tail -f 
>
> but it has its own set of problems ranging from "being totally
> unreadable" to "requires running on postgres user or as root".

O.k. so I think this whole thread screams TODO...

A function that allows a postgresql user to know which log file is
currently being written to.

Joshua D. Drake



>
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>
> depesz
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