[Orca-users] Re: are old percol-* (orcallator) files necessary?

[Blair Zajac]

Paul Haldane wrote:
> > that "orcallator" looks at all the time which gets rotated daily.  Is
> > this possible simply by modifying the find_files line in Orca's .cfg
> > file?
> 
> IIRC this should be fine as long as the inode of the file changes when you
> turn the log so that orca can detect that it's a different file.

Hi Steve,

The only thing to add beyond Paul's answer is that you can use the 'reopen 1'
option for the group to have Orca reopen the file everytime it'll goes to read
the file.

Regards,
Blair

> 
> > Thanks so much for any help.  If anyone is interested in checking out
> > what I've done, I'll be glad to pass it along once it's completed.
> 
> Yup - I'd be interested in this - I did do a quick hack based on reading
> stuff from /proc a while back but I've mislaid that :-<
> 
> Paul
> --
> Paul Haldane
> Computing Service
> University of Newcastle
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