Need to make sure my understanding of newsyslog is correct for a daemon I'm writing

2007-01-05 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi everybody, I'm working on the finishing touches to a server program I've just written and one of the things it needs to log information to a log file. I'm going to log to /var/log/file.log and to manage the growth I'm going to add this log file to the newsyslog.conf file. However, I'd like

Re: Need to make sure my understanding of newsyslog is correct for a daemon I'm writing

2007-01-05 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:04:56PM -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote: Basically, I'm installing a signal handler for SIGHUP to do the following: reset the put pointer to the beginning of the file; flush any data that may be in the buffer; close the file; reopen file; Does this sound