On Oct 01, Richard Kettlewell <r...@greenend.org.uk> wrote: > -rw-r--r-- 1 syslog adm 0 May 15 04:15 /var/log/news/news.crit > -rw-r--r-- 1 syslog adm 1059 Aug 20 13:20 /var/log/news/news.err > -rw-r--r-- 1 syslog adm 6399076 Oct 1 09:10 /var/log/news/news.notice > > This is enforced by the syslogd package (every time it starts up). Since when? inn has always cooperated with the standard syslogd.
> This would be broken even if the cat didn't fail due to the file > permissions - if a message is logged after the copy but before the > cat then it will be lost. Better would be to rename the file aside, > create a new one and signal syslogd to make it re-open it - except > that all this runs as news so cannot signal syslogd. Yes, everybody knows this. So it is not going to change soon... -- ciao, Marco
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