Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:29:38 +0100 From: "Remko Lodder" <remko@elvandar.org> To: "Wayne Sierke" <ws+freebsd-questions@au.dyndns.ws>, "Bart Silverstrim" <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: log rotation Message-ID: <AKEOILKOBJGIMOMHPBBLMELLCAAA.remko@elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <1079352005.663.243.camel@ovirt.dyndns.ws>
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you can also write a script, cp -p the logfile and immediatly after that :> the file cp -p oldfile newfile && :> oldfile this keeps the file descriptors intact and might work Since i cannot test this, it's just a guess. Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]Namens Wayne Sierke Verzonden: maandag 15 maart 2004 13:00 Aan: Bart Silverstrim CC: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Onderwerp: Re: log rotation On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 10:37, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > Quick questions: > I've run across some mumblings in the ClamAV lists about Clamd not > logging anymore (or not scanning anymore?) when the maximum > logfile size is reached. Is anyone in FreeBSD running this, and if so, > are you using Newsyslog to rotate the logs? What are your settings > (how would I set it up)? > Having recently installed clamav I was interested in getting log rotation enabled too (5.2-RELEASE). As an experiment I set the when entry in newsyslog.conf to 1 hour. After the log rotation I'm not getting any new entries written to the logfile. I believe I saw somewhere someone claiming that logrotate was working for them (but probably on Linux). Might have to try that instead. Wayne > Elaborations: > I didn't know what would be a safe way to do this, since I also have > an every-four-hour update running for the clamav and I didn't know > what would happen if > A) the update for the database falls at a moment when the log is > rotating > B) I didn't find the "proper" way to rotate the log so Clamd doesn't > have an open file handle on a log being rotated and/or have clamd > try writing to the file while it's being rotated > C) how can clamd have the file rotated without being "temporarily > disabled" running into problems because that disabled clamd may > be called on in that period by amavisd-new to do a virus scan on > a mail message... > > Anyone got a good log rotation scheme in place to handle this > automatically without running into problems? > > Thanks! > -Bart > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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