[Xastir] Rotating Logs

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Chip Griffin wrote:

> I see that the text "rotate_file" occurs only in 'util.c'. I see that
> one reference is the definition of the function, one is a text
> reference for some sort of display or logging and the last is a
> function call within the "log_data" function. It appears that
> rotate_file is only called if the file size exceeds the
> MAX_LOGFILE_SIZE which is set at 2048000 (unknown units).

Bytes.


> So logfile rotation already exists, but there is no user control and
> it only happens if filesize gets really big (2 MB?). It looks like it
> is currently programmed to keep 3 files. I don't know where they are
> kept and what the renaming scheme is.

~/.xastir/logs/

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