Fixing #305 -- logs now reopen when Puppet restarts, and there is also now an autoflush mechanism available so logs will flush to disk immediately. I also now trap USR2 and reopen logs when it is sent, so if you just want to reopen logs you do not have to restart the whole process.

git-svn-id: https://reductivelabs.com/svn/puppet/trunk@1750 980ebf18-57e1-0310-9a29-db15c13687c0

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/log.rb b/lib/puppet/log.rb
index c8d92e649..c76dd945c 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/log.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/log.rb
@@ -237,11 +237,15 @@ module Puppet
                 file = File.open(path, File::WRONLY|File::CREAT|File::APPEND)
 
                 @file = file
+
+                @autoflush = Puppet[:autoflush]
             end
 
             def handle(msg)
                 @file.puts("%s %s (%s): %s" %
                     [msg.time, msg.source, msg.level, msg.to_s])
+
+                @file.flush if @autoflush
             end
         end
 
@@ -411,6 +415,7 @@ module Puppet
 
         # Reopen all of our logs.
         def Log.reopen
+            Puppet.notice "Reopening log files"
             types = @destinations.keys
             @destinations.each { |type, dest|
                 if dest.respond_to?(:close)