On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 05:19:42PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > James Housley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a program that I have the is supposed to run forever. I log > > any output to a log file. It is run in a startup script like thie: > > > > program_name >> $err_log 2>&1 > > > > The problem is that after newsyslog rotates the $err_log file, no more > > data is written to the file. I can not stop and restart the program. > > I can accept a signal. But what do I need to do in "program_name" to > > allow the data to be written after the "rotation" of the file. > > There is not much you can do unless you modify your program to write > directly to the log file instead of stdout (in which case you just > need to re-open the log file when you get a SIGHUP), or use something > like Apache's logrotate instead of newsyslog (pipe the program's > output to logrotate, which takes care of the rest)
Or, as an alternative to Apache's logrotate, there is multilog from djb's daemontools package - ports/sysutils/daemontools, http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 because I didn't think of a good beginning of it.
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