Re: more contrib: log rotator

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes:
> > Hey, do you guys think that a setting of silent_mode = false might affect 
> > no log files getting created?
> 
> No, but setting it to true would be bad news.

That's what I'd meant actually.  I had to turn of silent mode...  You know 
you're having a bad day when your email explaining how stupid you are is 
factually incorrect. :-)
If anyone wants the diff, here it is:

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<   $CMDNAME start   [-w] [-D DATADIR] [-s] [-l FILENAME] [-o \"OPTIONS\"]
---
>   $CMDNAME start   [-w] [-D DATADIR] [-s] [-r DURATION] [-l FILENAME] 
[-o \"OPTIONS\"]
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>   -r DURATION             invoke log rotation with DURATION seconds
>                           between rotation of files.
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>       -r)
>           DURATION="$2"
>           shift
>           ;;
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<         "$po_path" ${1+"$@"} </dev/null >>$logfile 2>&1 &
---
>         if [ -n "$DURATION" ]; then
>             "$po_path" ${1+"$@"} </dev/null 2>&1| $PGPATH/rotatelogs 
$logfile $DURATION 2>&1 &
>         else
>             "$po_path" ${1+"$@"} </dev/null >>$logfile 2>&1 &
>         fi