On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 at 14:53:10 +0100, Daniel Wiberg wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 02:27:18PM +0100, Tomasz Papszun wrote:
> > I didn't look at the sources but I've always thought that log rotating
> > is done different way.
> > The current logfile is _moved_ to other filename, not removed (deleted).
> > Due to this, the logfile is still open and new entries can be written to
> > it. Then on reload or restart, the handle (file descriptor?) is released
> > and the new logfile is created. Not earlier!
> >
> > I don't know if it makes any difference for clamd, though.
>
> Just a thought, user clamav does not have write permissions in the log
> directory, so logrotate, which I guess runs as root should create the new
> files also, owned by user clamav.
>
> Or did I overlook something?
>
Daniel is right.
I forgot to write the most important thing :-) :
clamd works with logrotate correctly at my place.
The previous logfile ends with:
Sun Feb 1 06:28:36 2004 -> Socket file removed.
Sun Feb 1 06:28:36 2004 -> Pid file removed.
Sun Feb 1 06:28:36 2004 -> --- Stopped at Sun Feb 1 06:28:36 2004
And the current one begins with:
Sun Feb 1 06:28:36 2004 -> +++ Started at Sun Feb 1 06:28:36 2004
Sun Feb 1 06:28:36 2004 -> Log file size limit disabled.
Sun Feb 1 06:28:36 2004 -> Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav/
...
This is ClamAV version 0.65-BugFixesFromCVS-20031123 on Debian Woody.
My clamav-daemon entry is:
/var/log/clamd.log {
weekly
missingok
notifempty
compress
postrotate
/etc/init.d/clamav-daemon force-reload
endscript
}
But I have also "create" option in logrotate.conf so a new logfile is
created with the same attributes as an old one (amavis.amavis).
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