Re: log rotation

2003-03-03 Thread Chad Kline
for i in /var/run/*.pid; do kill -1 `head -n 1 $i`; done Thank you, this seems to have solved my problem nicely :) Since I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7, I notice the following problem: Once a month when my log files rotate (simply gzipping the old, and the creating a new empty log file via a

log rotation

2003-03-02 Thread Chad Kline
Since I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7, I notice the following problem: Once a month when my log files rotate (simply gzipping the old, and the creating a new empty log file via a cron job) the log files stay empty. all permissions and ownerships are correct. it takes a reboot - then the daemons are

sh sourcing bug? test bug?

2003-01-14 Thread Chad Kline
fbsd 4.7 SCRIPT --- echo 1:$1 echo 2:$2 --- COMMAND LINE --- . ./script x y --- OUTPUT --- 1: 2: --- shouldn't the output be: 1:x 2:y ??? in bash, x y arguments work as expected, but in FBSD 4.7 and NBSD 1.6L, the arguments get trashed. ps. i used slackware about 7 years ago, and