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    From Deon George@3:633/509 to Michael Pierce on Sun Jun 21 10:18:06 2020
    Re: mis.log
    By: Michael Pierce to All on Sat Jun 20 2020 12:11 pm

    once it reaches a certain point (and it takes days to get there) the "log file" stops adding to the log.

    What's the size of it? Is it the same size each time?

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  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to Michael Pierce on Tue Jun 23 12:37:52 2020
    anybody else have a problem with tailing mis.log file??
    raspbery pi4 (4gb) a46 build
    tail -f mystic/logs/mis.log or even cat mystic/logs/mis.log

    once it reaches a certain point (and it takes days to get there) the "log file" stops adding to the log.

    MIS opens the log and keeps it open, only writing to the log file when it has 4 kilobytes of data to write. It does this to reduce wear and tear to the disk and it speeds things up a bit.

    You can disable that function by turning the log caching off. MIS will then update the log file immediate, but it has to open, write, and close the file each time a line needs to be added to the log. This is harder on your disk but you'll be able to tail it.

    You can turn it off in Servers > Logging > MIS.LOG > Cached Log > No

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