On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:03:11AM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: > When my firewall log is rotated by newsyslog.conf, I want to run an > custom script. > > Is there a way to auto launch script when newsyslog.conf log rotate > event happens?
Not in any simple way. However you can get newsyslog(1) to send a
signal to the process of your choice when it cycles the log file.
That process can do whatever you want on receipt of the signal. This
is not beginner-level shell or perl programming, but it's not hugely
difficult either.
Cheers,
Matthew
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