Re: Logrotating and running a command

2007-03-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Sounds slightly beyond the mandate of newsyslog(8). Although instead of a path-to-PID, a glob to pass to pkill(8) -HUP ${glob} would be on my NFR list. At that point, logrotate(8) may seem appealing (or a custom solution): postrotate/endscript The lines between

Re: Logrotating and running a command

2007-03-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-03-16 19:22, Jos? Pablo Fern?ndez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need to rotate some logs, but instead of getting the PID out of a file and sending a SIGHUP to that process, like newsyslog does, I need to run a command. Is that possible with newsyslog? how should I do it? Not

Logrotating and running a command

2007-03-16 Thread José Pablo Fernández
Hello, I need to rotate some logs, but instead of getting the PID out of a file and sending a SIGHUP to that process, like newsyslog does, I need to run a command. Is that possible with newsyslog? how should I do it? Thank you. -- José Pablo Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED]