Log rotation kills squeezeboxserver CLI

[Ben Laurie]

On 25 June 2013 13:26, Mark Knight <markk at knigma.org> wrote:
> Hi Ben, if you change newsyslog.conf to recreate the file with slimserv
> ownership, does it fix the error (although not the warnings)?
>
> /var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log    slimserv:slimserv 644 3 100  *     J
> /var/run/squeezeboxserver/squeezeboxserver.pid

Forgot to report back - yes, this fixes the problem.

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> On 25/06/2013 10:35, Ben Laurie wrote:
>>
>> I haven't figured out why, unfortunately, but if you use SBS' CLI
>> interface, it stops responding when the log gets rotated by newsyslog.
>>
>> Removing it from newsyslog.conf fixes the problem (obviously at the
>> cost of no log rotation :-).
>>
>> It also logs a _lot_ of crap, btw.
>>
>