archivesspace.out now is a binary file?

[Mang Sun]

We are on Aspace 3.5. Today, I suddenly noticed the Aspace's logfile is no longer a plain text file any more.

#less archivesspace.out
"archivesspace.out" may be a binary file.  See it anyway?

But #tail -f archivesspace.out can still get regular output. I haven't touched Aspace's backend for a long time. Anything abnormal or changed? We upgraded our Apace 2.7.x to 3.5 back in early 2024.

Thank you.

Mang Sun

Rice U.

[Blake Carver]

I've seen that happen, sometimes the file just gets corrupted. Just restarting ArchivesSpace should start a new file.

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[Mang Sun]

Blake,  I also noticed (but subject to further observation and test )the log file is not reset but keeps growing  when our logrotate script restarts the Aspace and archives the current log file. When the log file is small, command less can handle it. We are on RHEL 9. Thank you.

Mang

[Blake Carver]

It may just be so large you'll need to delete it manually.

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