On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 04:16:44PM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > So, _cron is essentially restart, but with a 3-second delay followed by > deleting old atop_* files.
It is essentially what the upstream cron job did in a dedicated shell script, using its own configuration and introducing possibility for de-synced paths. > I’m not entirely sure what the 3-second delay is for (and it’s not > documented), so I cannot comment on that. It's what upstream does. I guess that the sleep is there to allow the dying atop to close the log file. > Fedora uses logrotate to deal with /var/log/atop/atop.log. In case you > don’t want to use that for some reason (please elaborate), Upstream's wish. I rolled back the corresponding Debian change because it introduced three bugs into Debian that noone cared about. I decided to go back to the way Upstream does it. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
