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Re: cron logs and logrotate (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hopper)
Mon Oct 21 18:46:09 1996
From: Dan Hopper <dhopper@brisco.telogy.com>
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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:04:58 -0400 (EDT)
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> From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: cron logs and logrotate
> On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Jos Vos wrote:
>
> > This is a problem, I think (we can't signal syslogd in advance, so...).
> >
> > Any solution for this?
>
> cd /var/log
> mv messages messages.old
> killall -HUP syslogd
> killall -HUP klogd
> # do whatever with messages.old
>
> This type logic needs to be built into the log rotator.
>
> Erik
One should be careful with this type of procedure when using the logrotate
script. For example, the first time, you move the logs to a temp dir, run
logrotate on them, it doesn't do anything because it's the first time, then
the next time your cron job runs, you move the new logs on top of the old
ones in the temp dir, losing the initial logs instead of rotating them.
Doubtless integrating this type of logic into the script could be made to
work as desired.
Dan
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