Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:41:12 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loosing STDOUT after file rotation Message-ID: <20040427084112.GF966@straylight.m.ringlet.net> In-Reply-To: <xzp1xn6quep.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <406C8F4F.1040306@Thehousleys.net> <xzp1xn6quep.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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--d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 05:19:42PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> writes: > > I have a program that I have the is supposed to run forever. I log > > any output to a log file. It is run in a startup script like thie: > > > > program_name >> $err_log 2>&1 > > > > The problem is that after newsyslog rotates the $err_log file, no more > > data is written to the file. I can not stop and restart the program. > > I can accept a signal. But what do I need to do in "program_name" to > > allow the data to be written after the "rotation" of the file. >=20 > There is not much you can do unless you modify your program to write > directly to the log file instead of stdout (in which case you just > need to re-open the log file when you get a SIGHUP), or use something > like Apache's logrotate instead of newsyslog (pipe the program's > output to logrotate, which takes care of the rest) Or, as an alternative to Apache's logrotate, there is multilog from djb's daemontools package - ports/sysutils/daemontools, http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 because I didn't think of a good beginning of it. --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAjhyo7Ri2jRYZRVMRAshnAJ92NkvppN43in2ME8Hxcnivs2gE+wCgqAkJ g81DAJgLpjccJpXutIjupg8= =Q+Jc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--
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