Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:30:49 -0500 (EST) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslog/rotatelog Message-ID: <200203041930.g24JUn317037@onceler.kciLink.com> References: <001301c1c30e$d4006a40$faa0b542@noc> <20020304162808.B74621@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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>>>>> "JC" == Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> writes: JC> It is possible to use newsyslog for what you're doing, have something JC> like: JC> /var/log/httpd-access.log 644 5 * $W6D0 Z JC> /var/log/httpd-error.log 644 5 * $W6D0 Z /var/run/http.pid JC> You only need the http.pid entry on the last line so that newsyslog JC> will only send the HUP once to apache once the logs have been rotated. Where is this documented in newsyslog? I see no guarantee that the order of the file is honored for programs that write multiple log files like Apache does. Also, does newsyslog compress after sending the signal or before? That is not documented, either, in the man page. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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