That sounds good. So in fact we can use this logrotate method without loosing any SMS in the process?
J On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Milan P. Stanic <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 15:50, 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? > > Kannel just reopens log files when it 'receives' HUP (hang up) signal > and does not shutdown or hang up really. > > > 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 > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > -- > Kind regards, Milan > -------------------------------------------------- > Arvanta, IT Security http://www.arvanta.net > Please do not send me e-mail containing HTML code or documents in > proprietary format (word, excel, pps and so on) > >
