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URL: HYPERLINK "http://www.howtoforge.com/"www.howtoforge.com Stu _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Hayes Sent: 29 November 2006 14:21 To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts Subject: RE: [Peterboro] Log Control Script Eron What is the URL of the How to website that you were talking about at the meeting last night? Been banging my head trying to remember it........ Ben _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eron Smith Sent: 27 November 2006 00:12 To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Log Control Script 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: HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"Malcolm Hunter To: HYPERLINK "mailto:[email protected]"Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts 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 HYPERLINK "http://i18n.kde.org/teams/info/en_GB"http://i18n.kde.org/teams/info/en_GB _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list HYPERLINK "mailto:[email protected]"[email protected] HYPERLINK "https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro"https://mailman.lug.o rg.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.14.19/555 - Release Date: 27/11/2006 18:09 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.14.19/555 - Release Date: 27/11/2006 18:09
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