Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 04:07:37 -0700 (MST) From: chad@anasazi.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/10705: enhancement to "newsyslog" Message-ID: <199903211107.EAA04417@freebie.dcfinc.com>
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>Number: 10705
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: enhancement to "newsyslog"
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Mar 21 03:10:01 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Chad R. Larson
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
DCF, Inc.
>Environment:
Any 2.2-STABLE system
>Description:
The current "newsyslog" program is useful for rolling log
files other than those run by syslog. But some of those
uses do not involve a logging daemon, for example, keeping
logs of cvsup operations, or the output of "make". However,
newsyslog as now delivered will try to signal some daemon at
the conclusion of processing each line in its config file.
You can avoid the signal by intentionally creating an
invalid "path to pid" file, but that is a kludge and you
have to put up with error messages.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
I've added another option switch to the command line of
newsyslog that supresses the attempt to send a signal.
Here are patches...
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*** newsyslog.8.old Sun Mar 21 03:50:41 1999
--- newsyslog.8 Sun Mar 21 03:51:18 1999
***************
*** 1,7 ****
.\" This file contains changes from the Open Software Foundation.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)newsyslog.8
! .\" $Id: newsyslog.8,v 1.1 1999/03/19 21:35:16 toor Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 1988, 1989 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
.\"
--- 1,7 ----
.\" This file contains changes from the Open Software Foundation.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)newsyslog.8
! .\" $Id: newsyslog.8,v 1.2 1999/03/19 23:52:10 toor Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 1988, 1989 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
.\"
***************
*** 25,31 ****
.Nd maintain system log files to manageable sizes
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm newsyslog
! .Op Fl Fnrv
.Op Fl f Ar config_file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Newsyslog
--- 25,31 ----
.Nd maintain system log files to manageable sizes
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm newsyslog
! .Op Fl Fnrsv
.Op Fl f Ar config_file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Newsyslog
***************
*** 149,154 ****
--- 149,158 ----
.Nm
not to trim the logs, but to print out what it would do if this option
were not specified.
+ .It Fl s
+ Tell
+ .Nm
+ not to attempt to signal any daemon.
.It Fl r
Remove the restriction that
.Nm
*** newsyslog.c.old Sun Mar 21 03:57:51 1999
--- newsyslog.c Sun Mar 21 03:51:18 1999
***************
*** 27,33 ****
#ifndef lint
static const char rcsid[] =
! "$Id: newsyslog.c,v 1.1 1999/03/19 21:35:16 toor Exp $";
#endif /* not lint */
#ifndef CONF
--- 27,33 ----
#ifndef lint
static const char rcsid[] =
! "$Id: newsyslog.c,v 1.3 1999/03/21 10:45:25 chad Exp $";
#endif /* not lint */
#ifndef CONF
***************
*** 90,95 ****
--- 90,96 ----
int verbose = 0; /* Print out what's going on */
int needroot = 1; /* Root privs are necessary */
int noaction = 0; /* Don't do anything, just show it */
+ int nokill = 0; /* Don't signal the syslog daemon */
int force = 0; /* Force the trim no matter what*/
char *conf = CONF; /* Configuration file to use */
time_t timenow;
***************
*** 218,223 ****
--- 219,227 ----
case 'r':
needroot = 0;
break;
+ case 's':
+ nokill++;
+ break;
case 'v':
verbose++;
break;
***************
*** 234,240 ****
static void usage()
{
! fprintf(stderr, "usage: newsyslog [-Fnrv] [-f config-file]\n");
exit(1);
}
--- 238,244 ----
static void usage()
{
! fprintf(stderr, "usage: newsyslog [-Fnrsv] [-f config-file]\n");
exit(1);
}
***************
*** 523,531 ****
pid = 0;
need_notification = notified = 0;
! if (pid_file != NULL) {
! need_notification = 1;
! pid = get_pid(pid_file);
}
if (pid) {
--- 527,537 ----
pid = 0;
need_notification = notified = 0;
! if (nokill == 0) {
! if (pid_file != NULL) {
! need_notification = 1;
! pid = get_pid(pid_file);
! }
}
if (pid) {
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