Bug 1090051
| Summary: | Rotation of boinc log file fails to restart boinc-client process to pick up new log file | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Charles Dennett <cdennett> | ||||
| Component: | boinc-client | Assignee: | Germano Massullo <germano.massullo> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 22 | CC: | bugzilla.redhat.com, cheekyboinc, daveg, germano.massullo, mattia.verga, mmahut, xjakub | ||||
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2016-07-19 19:29:31 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
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| Bug Depends On: | 1339002 | ||||||
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Description
Charles Dennett
2014-04-22 13:14:49 UTC
Discovered that the use of the option --allow_multiple_clients in /usr/bin/boinc causes boinc-client not to create the lockfile. boinc-client seems to run ok without it. Is it really needed/ Problem continues to exist in Fedora 21 Problem continues to exist if Fedora 22 Still in my FC21 too This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component. This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component. The BOINC client does not have a facility to close/reopen it's log files. The current log rotation script attempts to re-start the service but relies on initscripts service lock files that are not created by the systemd unit. The result is that there is no effective log rotation. Re-starting the BOINC client can cause problems with some projects and risks losing results in long-running models. The fall-back solution (that I have used for a few months now) is to rotate the log files with copy/truncate and allow the client to keep running. The log files are simply the redirected standard error and output of the process. There is a *small* risk of losing log output during the copy/truncate but I consider that preferable to uncontrolled file growth. My working log rotation script is attached. Created attachment 1119432 [details]
/etc/logrotate.d/boinc-client
boinc-client-7.6.22-1.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-89ece19b35 boinc-client-7.6.22-1.el7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-268bdbd1df boinc-client-7.6.22-1.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-8e698a1a52 boinc-client-7.6.22-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-8e698a1a52 boinc-client-7.6.22-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-89ece19b35 boinc-client-7.6.22-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-268bdbd1df Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |