[Dxspider-support] Log rotate & database question

[Rick Morris]

Hi all,

I've had my DX Cluster node running solid for a while now with only one 
little detail left to fix up.  I was looking at the log files in 
/spider/data/log/2004. I currently have two. One is named 07.dat (I 
assume for July) and one is named 08.dat (I assume for August). The 
07.dat seems to no longer be in use and 08.dat is getting rather large 
and I believe is causing the show/log command to become very slow.  Is 
there a way to automatically 'rotate' these logs so that I can keep them 
reasonably small?  I would like to rotate them weekly if possible. Also, 
can I delete these files once they are no longer used? How do I view the 
data that is in the old file(s)? I checked the mailing list archive and 
the on-line docs and  didn't find anything.

As well, I see in the docs that databases can be created, however, it 
does not explain what purpose the databases would serve. Could someone 
please enlighten me?

Thanks & 73,
Rick

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Rick Morris - VE3KYG

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Oxford Mills, Ontario
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