>>> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
