Isn't kill -HUP supposed to reboot nicely? From the kannel source all I can gather is that it reopens the logs?
http://www.kannel.org/download/1.4.2/gateway-1.4.2/gw/bearerbox.c case SIGHUP: bb_todo |= BB_LOGREOPEN; break; On 8 dec 2011, at 09.50, JAmes wrote: > 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 >> 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 >> >> >> > >
