Logrotate is a pain 3733
Fritz Bayer wrote (in part): Have you read man logrotate ? Here is part of it.
# sample logrotate configuration file compress
var-log-messages { rotate 5 weekly postrotate sbin-killall -HUP syslogd endscript }
The first few lines set global options; in the example, logs are com- pressed after they are rotated. Note that comments may appear anywhere in the config file as long as the first non-whitespace character on the line is a #.
hi i thought i had got my sound system working on my laptop but a few problems have cropped up again. i compiled soundcore module in kernel 2.6.11.10 and...
The next section of the config files defined how to handle the log file var-log-messages. The log will go through five weekly rotations before being removed. After the log file has been rotated (but before the old version of the log has been compressed), the commandsbin-killall -HUP syslogd will be executed.
Many of the "better" daemon programs accept sigHUP that cause them to close and reopen their logfiles. The rest need to be stopped and restarted.
I do not know how to do that (or even if it is possible), but I never found a need for that.
The way the file system works is that once a file has been opened it is refered to by its inode (internal file management number) not a name. This is to prevent file system...
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