Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I have quite a bit of trouble with logrotate and syslog. I am running > logrotate and syslog pretty much exactly as they come from the potato > release. With the exception that I added a logrotate file to logrotate.d > to rotate my apache logs as well as turning on the compress option in > logrotate.conf. The problem is that everytime it rotates my syslog files > (weekly) it screws up syslog by making log to messages.0 etc... basically > all my normal syslog files with a .0 extension. Anyone have this happen to > them?
Well, I hope it's not renaming syslog to messages.0, but syslog -> syslog.0 and messages -> messages.0. > I have temorarily added a restart to the rotate for syslog to restart > syslog which solves the problem but it still creates the files. When a unix program opens a file by its name, it is then unimportant what happens to the filename - the program hangs onto the file's inode. It's quite legitimate to even delete the filename - it won't actually be removed until the program closes it. The name is merely an entry in a directory. So the restart is necessary to get the program to close the old file which now has the "wrong" name and open a new one with the right name. You get a whole day (week, month etc.) to do this because after the next renaming (foobar.0 -> foobar.1) the file needs to be compressed, which would not be possible if it was still open for writing. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
