Re: FileNotFoundError thrown due to file name in file, rather than file itself

On 11/14/24 12:03 AM, Left Right wrote:

On any Unix system this is untrue.  Rotating a log file is quite simple:

 
I realized I posted this without cc'ing the list:
http://jdebp.info/FGA/do-not-use-logrotate.html .
 
The link above gives a more detailed description of why log rotation
on the Unix system is not only not simple, but is, in fact,
unreliable.

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Nothing in that article contradicts what I said about renaming log
files.  His argument is that renaming log files messes with tail -F, and
therefore broken and unreliable.  Which a pretty strange argument.  tail
-F might not see some data during the rotation, but the log files
themselves don't miss anything, which was my contention.  In all my
years of sysadmin-ing I have never once worried about problems GNU tail
might have with a file that gets rotated out from under you.  Not sure
why the author is so fixated on it.