relay log problem

[Henri Verbeet]

On 29 January 2010 00:14, Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/29 Henri Verbeet <hverbeet at gmail.com>:
>> On 28 January 2010 22:39, Stefan Leichter <Stefan.Leichter at camline.com> wrote:
>>> Is this a know problem? Is a work around available?
>>>
>> Yeah, that's a known problem. As a workaround you can use ">>"
>> (append) instead of ">" to redirect to the file. You'll still need the
>> "2>&1" to redirect stderr to stdout, of course.
>
> Wait, is this really a "known problem" or is it just that he was using
> the standard ">" redirect, which is *expected* to overwrite the file?
>
The problem isn't the file being overwritten, it's multiple threads
writing (mostly unsynchronized) to the same file.