pm-suspend.log needs to be rotated.

[Manoj Iyer]

Binary package hint: rsyslog

pm-suspend.log is written by pm-suspend/resume scripts directly to /var/log directory. For latops that suspends resumes all the time, but has an occasional fail might produce large enough log file and end up getting truncated instead of getting rotated.

We are thinking of writing apport hooks that will file a bug with low priority if we can determine that the failure is a one off failure, and file critical bugs when it fails more often or every time. With the current scheme we will throw away information that will be require to make a correct guess.

I would like to see rsyslog rotate the suspend/resume logs. Also I wonder why pm scripts dont use rsyslog to log these logs but have their own little function to do it, the only reason I could think of is, rsyslog operation might not be atomic, so suspend/resume might be slow?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Any particular reason this needs to be done in rsyslog rather than having pm-utils rotate them itself?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I'll move this to pm-utils unless somebody explains why it needs to be done in rsyslog.

[James Westby (james-w)]

I'm confused. The log file is truncated every time, so it doesn't need
rotation due to growing does it?

Is this a proposal to also stop the truncation and append to the logs
each time?

Thanks,

James

[Manoj Iyer (manjo)]

James,

Yes, we want to stop truncation and start appending to the file, and rotate it like its done for other logs in var/log

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pm-utils - 1.2.5-2ubuntu5

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pm-utils (1.2.5-2ubuntu5) karmic; urgency=low

  * Don't clear the log file at the start of each operation and
    install a logrotate file so that it doesn't grow too much
    (LP: #410352)

 -- James Westby <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:33:14 +0100

[James Westby (james-w)]

Manoj, I think I implemented what you want, let me know if I didn't.

Thanks,

James