Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] bzr log info in /var/lib/bzr/.bzr.log

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:51:44 GMT
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> 
> I temporarily switched vcs:/usr/local/bin/bzr-timeout to run with strace
> instead of timeout, and found /var/lib/bzr/.bzr.log being opened(*).
> It was a symlink to /dev/null. 

That was the /dev/null file descriptor I saw open in /proc/NNN/fd/,
then.

> So I moved the symlink aside and replaced it with a normal file and ran
> a typical bzr command.  The log msgs weren't impossibly voluminous, so I
> left it that way, and we'll see how it grows.  We'll certainly have to
> rotate it along with other logs, at least.

I'd expect bzr to rotate it, as it does with client logs.  Martin, is
that expectation correct?

> (*) Also, does not make sense to me that the normal log is a dot file.
> I would have found it three days ago if it had been a normal name.

I agree, it doesn't make much sense for a server to save a log in a
dot-file.  Perhaps submit a bug report about that.