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 postrotate

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? No