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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: unicorn list <mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: Reopening logs - why no relative paths?
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:02:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110331220248.GA1826@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimM0OV2=kRKjpB0Bj1AFMTpiwMj5H223-45fb6P@mail.gmail.com>

Matthew Kocher <mkocher@pivotallabs.com> wrote:
> We just spend a couple hours trying to figure out why sending a USR1
> signal wasn't causing unicorn to reopen logs.  Looking at the source
> reveals that only files opened with absolute paths are eligible for
> rotation, the others are silently skipped.
> 
> We use the fairly standard practice of always logging to
> log/unicorn.error.log and creating symlinks to where we'd like the
> logs to live on individual hosts.  We'll change our configs for the
> time being, but is there a reason to not reopen the relative paths?

It's ambiguous due to directory changes[1].  It may be easier now that
we have the "working_directory" directive now, but configuration changes
also change (or unset) the "working_directory" which adds to the
confusion.

We could try allowing it and see what happens, I suppose...


[1] - in my experience with writing daemons, directory changes make
      everything much harder all around.
-- 
Eric Wong
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-31 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-31 17:45 Reopening logs - why no relative paths? Matthew Kocher
2011-03-31 22:02 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2011-04-01 23:15   ` Eric Wong

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