Re: procServ dies quietly when log file > 2G

[Ralph Lange <Ralph.Lange@bessy.de>]

 Hi Bruce,

that's a good one!
Non-intentional behavior, of course. Seems I have to be more patient 
when testing.

I created a new bug report [1], and will take care of this issue as soon 
as I find the time.
Thanks for finding and reporting it!

Cheers,
Ralph

[1] https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/procserv/ticket/22


On 20.08.2010 01:50, Bruce Hill wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
> I just discovered that a couple of our soft IOC's, running via procServ,
> had stopped running.     When I tried launching the procServ daemon 
> again,
> I would get the message about spawning a daemon process, but ps would
> fail to find it.    On investigation, it turned out that both these 
> IOC's had
> 2GB log files.    When I removed the log files, procServ was able to
> launch successfully.
>
> I don't know if this was intended, but it would seem more prudent to keep
> the process running without logging if the log file is full, and just 
> print to
> stderr that the log is full.
>
> Best regards,
> - Bruce Hill