Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 14:32:44 -0400 From: Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/newsyslog.conf and denyhosts Message-ID: <20110503143244.81861e46.web@3dresearch.com> In-Reply-To: <201105031803.p43I3Px8067589@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <20110503124037.a4469206.web@3dresearch.com> <201105031803.p43I3Px8067589@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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On Tue, 3 May 2011 13:03:25 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue May 3 12:17:12 2011 > > Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 12:40:37 -0400 > > From: Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com> > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: /etc/newsyslog.conf and denyhosts > > > > What is the correct way to rotate denyhosts log files? > > > > In /etc/newsyslog.conf I have: > > > > /var/log/denyhosts 644 12 * > > $M1D0 JC /var/run/denyhosts.pid > > > > However, denyhosts does not log in the new file. > > Denyhosts has to be informed that the logfile has changed, so that it > can close and re-open the logfile. It may be possible by sending it > a 'signal', or you may have to kill/restart it. See the > documentation for denyhosts. > > Newsyslog itself does _not_ notify/restart any daemons you have to > do this yourself. Thank you, I'll just set up a cron job to restart it -- Janos Dohanics
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