Killing the bb process like that could lead to issues if you have a constant flow of traffic going through it, as it might kill it while its in the middle of processing an SMS.
Am I correct? On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Joel Westerberg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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). > > 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 <[email protected]> >>> *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 >>> >> >> > >
