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Bug#118773: marked as done (xserver-xfree86: want log rotation for /var/log/XFree86.*.log)

Your message dated Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:01:55 +0100
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and subject line Bug#118773: xserver-xfree86: want log rotation for /var/log/XFree86.*.log
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Package: xserver-xfree86
Version: 4.1.0-9
Severity: wishlist


Hi,

when the X11 server crashes or aborts, it is necessary to look at
/var/log/XFree86.*.log in order to identify the problem.  Unfortunately, when
using a display manager, xdm/kdm/gdm/wdm immediately restarts the X11 server
and this log file is overwritten.  This is a problem especially when the crash
is not easily reproducible.

So could you please rotate those log files when a new server starts ?

You could for instance use XFree86.*.log.[0-9][.gz] in order to archive the
last 10 versions, as do most daemons.


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux irancy 2.4.12-686 #2 Sat Oct 13 20:13:05 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages xserver-xfree86 depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.0.18     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.2.4-5    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  xserver-common                4.1.0-9    files and utilities common to all 
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.3-16 compression library - runtime

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Closing since there is log rotation (the old log is renamed to .old
before the new replaces it). It's not exactly what you requested but
it's better than nothing.

Brice

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