On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 16:09, mwamba chishimba wrote: > Hi Stanic, My name is Milan, just to clarify. I'm not offended. :-) > If I want to do log rotation every month what do I need to do?
Change keyword 'daily' to 'monthly' in /etc/logrotate.d/kannel file is the simplest and best solution if you don't have some special reason to do it differently. 'man logrotate' could help. > Kind Regards, > > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Milan P. Stanic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 16:00, JAmes wrote: > > > That sounds good. > > > > > > So in fact we can use this logrotate method without loosing any SMS in > > the > > > process? > > > > I'm using it for years on three different systems and I didn't lost > > single SMS because of this method for log rotation. > > > > > 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) > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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) > > > > > > > -- > Mwamba Chishimba > > "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor > principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor > height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us > from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" -- 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)
