Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:51:40 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein@rdtc.ru> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: running newsyslog fiveminly Message-ID: <4E35881C.2010505@rdtc.ru>
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Hi! Suppose, there is a machine which writes two kinds of log files through syslogd: quickly-growing that need to be rotated based on their size (hourly is too seldom) and other that should be rotated once a day, at midnight only. For first kind of logs we have to run newsyslog once every 5 minutes using cron: */5 * * * * root newsyslog For second kind of logs we have lines in newsyslog.conf such as following: /var/log/mpd.log 640 16 * @T0000 JC This must ensure that /var/log/mpd.log is rotated and compressed at midnigt only. Note, that compressing the file takes 8 minutes. However, every night at 00:05 I get an error: bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bzip2: No such file or directory Input file = /var/log/mpd.log.0, output file = /var/log/mpd.log.0.bz2 newsyslog: `bzip2 -f /var/log/mpd.log.0' terminated with a non-zero status (1) It seems, newsyslog still wants to process my file at 00:05 despite @T0000 time specification. Is it broken? Eugene Grosbein
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