> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Beirne Konarski
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:26
> To: Renaud Deraison; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Logfile rotation
>
>
> On Friday 26 September 2003 02:53 pm, Renaud Deraison wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:41:52PM -0400, Beirne Konarski wrote:
> > > My logfiles are hitting 2GB and causing nessusd to crash.
> I'd like to do
> > > some rotation to manage them. What is the safe way to do
> this? I assume
> > > a kill -1 will interrupt any running scans. What happens if I just
> > > truncate the file? Or do I need to just reset nessus?
> >
> > Move the file, then do :
> >
> > kill -1 `cat /usr/local/var/nessus/nessusd.pid`
>
> Won't this halt any currently running scans?
>
> >
> >
> > Also you may want to set "log_whole_attack" to "no" in your .nessusrc to
> > reduce the size of the logfile.
>
> I'll do this when I can. The auditing it provides has been useful a few
> times.
>
Beirne,
What OS are you running the server on?
Best Regards,
Camron
Camron W. Fox
Hilo Office
High Performance Computing Group
Fujitsu America, INC.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
