Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 5479 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2010 20:11:47 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 8 Jan 2010 20:11:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 655 invoked by uid 500); 8 Jan 2010 20:11:46 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 569 invoked by uid 500); 8 Jan 2010 20:11:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 559 invoked by uid 99); 8 Jan 2010 20:11:45 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:11:45 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [209.85.219.216] (HELO mail-ew0-f216.google.com) (209.85.219.216) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:11:36 +0000 Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so19645759ewy.35 for ; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:11:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.23.204 with SMTP id s12mr17890427ebb.69.1262981476260; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:11:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from unknown-00-26-08-ed-1d-a6.home (host86-171-222-30.range86-171.btcentralplus.com [86.171.222.30]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm4092387eyg.44.2010.01.08.12.11.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:11:15 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Do I need the couchdb.stdout file? Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 From: Noah Slater In-Reply-To: X-Noah: Awesome Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 20:11:12 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <6F9386E2-2B51-45D5-A9C2-031159A1DF72@tumbolia.org> References: <214c385b1001071147y2ebd03a8ydae7a1f404c0e456@mail.gmail.com> <1479FC04-D4B1-4EC8-938A-6B8C9294ED14@tumbolia.org> <3EFCA802-B03D-4E50-868D-4D778BF61AC7@tumbolia.org> To: user@couchdb.apache.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org The log files are useful for diagnosing problems. Keep them under = /var/log/couchdb which the init script takes care of. I would also = recommend rotating them so they don't get so big. Check the = /etc/logrotate.d/couchdb script which is provided with CouchDB. The = README also mentions this. On 8 Jan 2010, at 17:58, Zachary Zolton wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Noah Slater = wrote: >> Yes, but don't. Why would you do that? >=20 > Sheer ignorance=97I'm just trying to figure out how to improve my > CouchDB configuration. (^_^) >=20 > What happened was I was rotating the couch.log file, but I forgot > about the stdout file, which eventually filled up my partition. > (Doh...!) When I logged in found the stdout file full of request, > which already seemed to be recorded by the couch.log file, so I wasn't > sure if the stdout file was useful. (I know: disk space costs approach > zero as time goes to infinity, so I shouldn't worry about storing > stuff redundantly!) >=20 > So, I guess I should be asking you about purpose of the stdout/stderr > files in order to figure out the best practice. >=20 > Am I still making sense? My silly thread has grow so long now... (^_-)