Re: [Tracker] about the need to remove log file

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Hi,

Hi :)

> A while ago someone limited the log file to grow to about 10MB. 

On the indexer-split branch we use GLib for logging. There is no limit
as far as I know.

> That
> to me means it's unnecessary to delete it on every start-up. 

It is necessary because we append to the log file each time, we want a
new log file for each instance.

> But why I
> care is that I want to be able to have my 'tail -f
> ~/.local/share/tracker/trackerd.log' continue giving output without me
> re-running it between daemon restarts. Thanks...

This should work fine right now on the indexer-split branch at least.
Plus there is also tracker-indexer.log there now too, so you can see
what mischief the indexer has got up to :)

-- 
Regards,
Martyn