Il lun, 2003-12-22 alle 19:40, Dima Tkach ha scritto:
> Hi, everybody!
>
> I was wonderring if there is a way to make logrotate work with postgres
> logs?
> More precisely, the question is - is there any way to tell a running
> postmaster process to reopen its log file?
> I tried kill -HUP ... but that doesn't seem to do anything...
>
> Is there just no way to do what I want?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dima
In /etc/logrotate.d create a file named i.e. postgres with more or less
the following contents:
/var/log/postgres.log {
weekly
missingok
rotate 4
copytruncate
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
}
Pls notate the 'copytruncate' option which enables the routing of the
output of syslogd to a new file.
Claudio
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