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| author | Mark Benvenuto <mark.benvenuto@mongodb.com> | 2014-06-05 14:55:52 -0400 |
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| committer | Mark Benvenuto <mark.benvenuto@mongodb.com> | 2014-06-06 18:19:01 -0400 |
| commit | 616461d294bd9f5054ca38b302b6fc5d70fde20c (patch) | |
| tree | 671cd2efc28166c2a8cb9d6273954e5a38ea5255 /src/mongo/util/log.h | |
| parent | dae863af3f695fe98c16473ca07d79fb106121c0 (diff) | |
| download | mongo-616461d294bd9f5054ca38b302b6fc5d70fde20c.tar.gz | |
SERVER-4905: add flag to disable mongo's builtin log rotation
To support the standalone utility, we need to give administrators
support for disabling Mongo's builtin log rotation.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/mongo/util/log.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/mongo/util/log.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/mongo/util/log.h b/src/mongo/util/log.h index b61913a0d32..ab221bd01da 100644 --- a/src/mongo/util/log.h +++ b/src/mongo/util/log.h @@ -93,8 +93,16 @@ namespace logger { /** * Rotates the log files. Returns true if all logs rotate successfully. + * + * renameFiles - true means we rename files, false means we expect the file to be renamed + * externally + * + * logrotate on *nix systems expects us not to rename the file, it is expected that the program + * simply open the file again with the same name. + * We expect logrotate to rename the existing file before we rotate, and so the next open + * we do should result in a file create. */ - bool rotateLogs(); + bool rotateLogs(bool renameFiles); /** output the error # and error message with prefix. handy for use as parm in uassert/massert. |