Re: pg_ctl patch to integrate apache's rotatelogs - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Ouch.  How long has that documentation been wrong?  We have pointed
> > folks to that section of the docs tons of times, and no one mentioned
> > that "logrotate" is really "rotatelogs", and that it is missing
> > parameters?
>
> > I have applied the following patch to document rotatelogs properly.
>
> I think you just broke it.  logrotate and rotatelogs are two different
> programs, and AFAIK the existing documentation correctly described the
> one that is easier to use with Postgres.

Oh, why don't I have logrotate.  My system has:

       rotatelogs - rotate Apache logs without having to kill the
       server

       rotatelogs logfile rotationtime [offset]

and it says it is Apache's.  I must be wrong but can someone explain
this?

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