>>> On 1/7/2009 at  5:44 AM, John Summerfield <[email protected]>
wrote: 
-snip-
> logrotate expects you're logging sensibly. John is not.
> 
> "sensibly" means the program can close and reopen the logfile on demand.

That is not a requirement for logrotate.  If nothing else the "copytruncate" 
parameter will do what is desired.  I had to wind up using that for ntpd, since 
it never closes its log file, and any signals ntpd gets result in it shutting 
down.


Mark Post

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