Instiki users - Jan 2006 - [Instiki] Log rollover: no safe shutdown of Win32 Instiki service?

I''d love to be able to turn on logging on our win32 wiki, but I
can''t
roll over the log the way I do on the Linux system (by simply doing a
''logrotate'' followed by a /etc/init.d/instiki restart).  The
trouble is,
our Instiki process isn''t really a Windows service, so it
won''t respond
to a shutdown messages the way real Windows services do (analogous to
the TERM signal sent to Instiki on Linux).  If I just locate and
terminate the process, Madeleine will surely be corrupted.  So I am left
without a way to safely roll over the log file.  Thus, I can''t turn on
logging.

Of course, shutting down and restarting Instiki would just be one way of
rolling over the log.  I suppose if Instiki supported a "new log"
adminstrative function that the admin could trigger from edit_web, I
could have a script trigger that with an appropriately formed URL
containing the administrative password.

This raises a second, issue, distinct from logging: Wouldn''t an orderly
shutdown or reboot of a win32 system corrupt Madeleine too?  Presumably
Windows attempts to shut down all of its services properly, but again,
our Ruby webrick server isn''t really a Windows service, so there is no
way for Windows to tell it to flush before exiting.

Ben

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Hi Ben.
k
>  This raises a second, issue, distinct from logging: Wouldn''t an
orderly
> shutdown or reboot of a win32 system corrupt Madeleine too?  Presumably
> Windows attempts to shut down all of its services properly, but again, our
> Ruby webrick server isn''t really a Windows service, so there is no
way for
> Windows to tell it to flush before exiting.
Madeleine has proved unstable with many data corruptions. This is one
of the reasons for the move to a database backup. The new Instiki
should with all dmbs supported by Rails.

In Pimki I have implemented a "stop service" functionality to reduce
the chances of those coruptions. If you''re interested it should be
simple to look at the source and extract just the relevant patch for
Instiki. It will also give you a sample on how to add more admin
functions to the edit web, like a log rollover.

HTH,
Assaph