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Date:      Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:51:28 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Jos? Pablo Fern?ndez <pablo.fernandez@rs.com.ar>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Logrotating and running a command
Message-ID:  <20070317185128.GB47438@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <200703161922.12086.pablo.fernandez@rs.com.ar>
References:  <200703161922.12086.pablo.fernandez@rs.com.ar>

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On 2007-03-16 19:22, Jos? Pablo Fern?ndez <pablo.fernandez@rs.com.ar> wrote:
> Hello,
> I need to rotate some logs, but instead of getting the PID out of a
> file and sending a SIGHUP to that process, like newsyslog does, I need
> to run a command.
> Is that possible with newsyslog? how should I do it?

Not directly, but you can easily hack around this by running a daemon
which blocks waiting for a signal and runs the command when newsyslog
signals your daemon ;-)




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