From 8198fb64739a4585adea07ea1675b37512c5e527 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thibaud Ducasse <11507599+tducasse@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 10:20:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [IMP] doc: add logrotate warning in cmdline doc Fixes #24542 --- doc/reference/cmdline.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/reference/cmdline.rst b/doc/reference/cmdline.rst index 058eac51ddd..575e93af327 100644 --- a/doc/reference/cmdline.rst +++ b/doc/reference/cmdline.rst @@ -305,6 +305,13 @@ customize the amount of logging output enables `log rotation `_ daily, keeping 30 backups. Log rotation frequency and number of backups is not configurable. + + .. danger:: + + Built-in log rotation is not reliable in multi-workers scenarios + and may incur significant data loss. It is *strongly recommended* to + use an external log rotation utility or use system loggers (--syslog) + instead. .. option:: --syslog