I think it'd be best to use the logrotate daemon if you're hosting on a unix system (not doing logrotate yet though, but will once I move to production).
See: http://www.kannel.org/pipermail/users/2007-October/003108.html /your_path/kannel.log /your_path/sqlbox.log /your_path/smsbox.log { daily missingok rotate 100 size=50M compress delaycompress olddir /your_path/oldlogs notifempty create 640 root root sharedscripts postrotate killall -HUP bearerbox sqlbox smsbox || true > /dev/null 2> /dev/null endscript } On 8 dec 2011, at 09.21, [email protected] wrote: > Yes. From command line, I close smsbox>sqlbox>bearerbox (in order), move the > logs out of folder, and then restart bearerbox>sqlbox>smsbox. Brearebox > creates all new files when it finds out no log files in the log directory. > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:18 PM, JAmes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > So you issue the admin command: shutdown, then move configs, then admin > command restart? > > Regards, > J > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Sean Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > clone your server. ;P rsync everything, and then change config.... > > > > > Thank you, > Sean Brady > [email protected] > http://www.simpletechnology.us/ > +1 ( 256 ) 542-1429 > > > aim - cesurasean > yahoo - cesurasean > google - [email protected] > msn - [email protected] > icq - 357464121 > skype - cesurasean > sip:[email protected] > > From: JAmes > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 12:49 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Log Rotation > > Hi, > > What the best way to rotate the logs without interrupting kannel and making > bb, sqlbox etc still write to the logs? > > For example, if we move the log files, zip them, archive etc, bb doesnt > create a new log file. Is there a better way? > > J > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1873 / Virus Database: 2102/4666 - Release Date: 12/07/11 > > >
