Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 16:57:54 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: thompson@tgsoft.com (mark thompson) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: usr.sbin/ppp: reopen ppp.log on SIGUSR1? Message-ID: <Mutt.19970119165754.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701191515.HAA12852@squirrel.tgsoft.com>; from mark thompson on Jan 19, 1997 07:15:16 -0800 References: <199701191515.HAA12852@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
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As mark thompson wrote: > Well, this may be ignorance talking, but i thought that daemons that did > logging were supposed to close/open their logfiles regularly (every > message?) so that they automatically get the right one after > rotation. Is this not so? It's not. The general protocol is to send the daemon a SIGHUP in order to have it re-read its config file, and reopen its logfile(s). I'm afraid SIGHUP is not really available for a PPP daemon, since it is meaningful there (unlike with other daemons that don't run on a tty). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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