[Koha] zebra shutting down - no search

Scott Owen sowen at edzone.net
Thu Jun 28 23:42:32 NZST 2018


This seems to have done the trick.
Haven't had to start zebra in two days now ...  me= happy !
Thanks to everyone for the assistance with this.


On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 11:56 AM Paul Hoffman <paul at flo.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 09:16:56AM -0400, Scott Owen wrote:
> > I still seem to be having some issues with logrotate and the zebra
> service
> > starting up....
> >
> > I have tried both of the options discussed in bug #
> > https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16885
> >
> > Has there been a good / reliable fix to this issue ? I was hoping that an
> > upgrade to  17.11 might be the solution...but sadly, I still seem to have
> > this issue on 2 of my 3 Kha installs....
>
> Another possible solution, which avoids shutting down Koha altogether,
> is to tweak the logrotate config to use the "copytruncate" setting.  So
> instead of all the prerotate/postrotate stuff, just do this:
>
> /var/log/koha/*/*.log {
>     rotate 5
>     weekly
>     missingok
>     compress
>     delaycompress
>     notifempty
>     copytruncate
> }
>
> Here's what the logrotate man page says about copytruncate:
>
>   copytruncate
>          Truncate  the  original log file in place after creating a copy,
>          instead of moving the old log file and optionally creating a new
>          one.   It  can be used when some program cannot be told to close
>          its logfile and thus might continue writing (appending)  to  the
>          previous log file forever.  Note that there is a very small time
>          slice between copying the file and truncating it, so  some  log-
>          ging  data  might be lost.  When this option is used, the create
>          option will have no effect, as the old log file stays in place.
>
> Paul.
>
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