Grot README Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Sergey Poznyakoff See the end of file for copying conditions. * Introduction This file contains brief information about configuring, testing and running Grot. It is *not* intended as a replacement for documentation. The Grot documentation is available in manpage format. After installation, run `man grot', for information about the grot program, and `man grot.cfg' for a description of grot configuration file format. * Overview Grot is Gray's Rotation Tool for MySQL Binary Logs. These are special files that the MySQL server creates in order to replicate its data to slave servers. These files tend to occupy a lot of disk space, but cannot be easily rotated using the usual tools (e.g. logrotate), because it is unknown which of them is in use by which slave. Grot is designed to fill this gap. It polls each slave and determines the oldest log among ones used by them. Then it instructs the server to delete all logs that precede it. * Configuring and Installing See the INSTALL file for instructions. * Example See grot.cfg for an example of run-time configuration file. * Bug reporting. Send bug reports to . * Copyright information: Copyright (C) 2009 Sergey Poznyakoff Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions, provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. Local Variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" version-control: never End: