Does anyone need a lift from the P'boro city area to the LUG on 28/11/2006?
I am in South Bretton area so I will assist anyone who needs a lift. Eron .......... ----- Original Message ----- From: Malcolm Hunter<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 17 November 2006 11:04 Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Log Control Script On Thu, November 16, 2006 9:57 pm, Stuart Clark wrote: > Syslogd does the HUP thing, so a killall -HUP syslogd should be what you > need. > > I would also suggest adjusting the order of your script, so that the log > is moved, reopened (HUP) then compressed, as a log line sent to the > still open log file during or after compression will probably break > things. I think you can get away with just nulling the messages file out after cat'ing it through gzip: cat /var/log/messages | gzip > /var/log/messages.gz >/var/log/messages The latter command starts with a '>' - this is the same as 'cat /dev/null >'. > Have you looked at "logrotate" which does all of the above, and is > fairly standard? Regards, Malcolm -- Technical copy-editor & proofreader KDE Proofreading Team KDE British English Translation Team http://i18n.kde.org/teams/info/en_GB<http://i18n.kde.org/teams/info/en_GB> _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro<https://mailman.lugorg.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro>
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