Mark Post wrote:
On 1/7/2009 at 5:44 AM, John Summerfield <[email protected]>
wrote:
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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.
I just checked the man page, it seems "copytruncate" does what Larry
suggested, and with the same warning about loss of data.
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