[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH node] do not backup logs

Alan Pevec apevec at redhat.com
Fri Feb 20 01:19:17 UTC 2009


There might too much logs and backup on live-rw root could overflow
and it is confusing to get old logs after re-partitioning the disk.
Save only temporary ovirt.log for installation troubleshooting.

Signed-off-by: Alan Pevec <apevec at redhat.com>
---
 scripts/ovirt-functions |   16 ++--------------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/ovirt-functions b/scripts/ovirt-functions
index ef4ba56..5385843 100755
--- a/scripts/ovirt-functions
+++ b/scripts/ovirt-functions
@@ -285,16 +285,11 @@ mount_logging() {
 
     if [ -e /dev/HostVG/Logging ] ; then
         log "Mounting log partition"
-        #  backup the logs
-        if [ -e /var/log.bak ]; then
-            rm -rf /var/log.bak
-        fi
-        cp -av /var/log /var/log.bak
 
         mount /dev/HostVG/Logging /var/log
-        cp -av /var/log.bak/* /var/log
+        # save temporary log
+        cp /tmp/ovirt.log /var/log/ovirt.log-tmp
         restorecon -rv /var/log
-        rm -Rf /var/log.bak
         service rsyslog restart
 
         return 0
@@ -315,15 +310,8 @@ unmount_logging() {
     # plymouthd keeps /var/log/boot.log
     plymouth --quit
     plymouth --wait
-    if [ -e /var/log.bak ]; then
-        rm -rf /var/log.bak
-    fi
-    cp -av /var/log /var/log.bak
 
     umount /var/log
-    cp -av /var/log.bak/* /var/log
-    restorecon -rv /var/log
-    rm -Rf /var/log.bak
     service rsyslog start
 
     return 0
-- 
1.6.0.6




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