# Gavin Andresen
# 2010-11-18 00:18:11
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=292.msg22503#msg22503

I just committed a change to svn to the way debug.log is written that means you need to change your logrotate configuration. @p{par}

Why the change:  before, bitcoin was opening and closing debug.log on every print.  That caused it to be unusable on Macs running FileVault (and slower than it aught to be on various other systems). @p{par}

After subversion rev 183, bitcoin will keep debug.log open and just append to it. @p{par}

If you're rotating logs using the unix logrotate command, just add 'copytruncate' to its configuration file and the right thing will happen.  I changed the example in my post above.