dmeey

I have already adressed this issue with a little demonstrations script in this thread:
 
however, nobody answered yet.

First time armbian user and poster here. Since this is not the right time and place for an introduction, lets keep it with a simple "Hi all!" and get straight to the topic:
 
for completeness, my system:
BOARD=orangepizeroplus BOARD_NAME="Orange Pi Zero Plus" BOARDFAMILY=sun50iw2 VERSION=5.59 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi64 BRANCH=next ARCH=arm64 IMAGE_TYPE=testing BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm64 KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image logging, in particular logrotate with ram-logging
As far as I understand:
- Three different cron files are responsible to handle ram-logging and logrotate
-- /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
-- /etc/cron.daily/armbian-ram-logging
-- /etc/cron.d/armbian-truncate-logs
- The configuration files for logrotate follow an agreement, that rotation is performed on the "cold" log files in log.hdd
 
Now while armbian-truncate-logs seems to do the right thing(i.e. truncating the "hot" log files in /var/log after rotation),  I have an impression that the consequences of a regular call to logrotate(as found in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate) have not been thought through. Since the hot log is not truncated in this case, it's contents get synced back by the next call to armbian-ram-logging.
 
I have created a minimal working example to demonstrate my point:
armbian-logrotate-test
#!/bin/bash LOGROTATE_CONF=armbian-logrotate-test.conf LOGFILE=armbian-logrotate-test.log counter=0 # fn log_logline () { echo "logline ${counter}" >> /var/log/${LOGFILE} counter=$((counter+1)) } log_rotate () { chown root.root ${LOGROTATE_CONF} /usr/sbin/logrotate --force ${LOGROTATE_CONF} } log_ramlog () { /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-ramlog write >/dev/null 2>&1 } log_cleanup () { rm -f /var/log/${LOGFILE}* rm -f /var/log.hdd/${LOGFILE}* } log_status () { echo "### /var/log.hdd ###" find /var/log.hdd -type f -name "${LOGFILE}*" -exec echo {} \; -exec cat {} \; echo "### /var/log ###" find /var/log -type f -name "${LOGFILE}*" -exec echo {} \; -exec cat {} \; } # main log_cleanup # - logging scenario log_logline log_logline log_ramlog log_rotate log_logline log_logline log_ramlog log_rotate log_logline log_logline # - output log_status log_cleanup with
armbian-logrotate-test.conf
/var/log.hdd/armbian-logrotate-test.log { rotate 10 daily missingok notifempty } after calling the script as root the following output is obtained:
### /var/log.hdd ### /var/log.hdd/armbian-logrotate-test.log.1 logline 0 logline 1 logline 2 logline 3 /var/log.hdd/armbian-logrotate-test.log.2 logline 0 logline 1 ### /var/log ### /var/log/armbian-logrotate-test.log logline 0 logline 1 logline 2 logline 3 logline 4 logline 5  
Has this been overlooked or do I miss something out in my test scenario?