Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 00:28:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: alan@beandorf.epilogue.com Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: misc/595: /var/cron/log doesn't rotate cleanly Message-ID: <199507062228.AAA06207@blaise.ibp.fr> In-Reply-To: <199507061940.MAA27613@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Alan Bawden" at Jul 6, 95 12:40:01 pm
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> root (06/27-13:15:01-241) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) > Jun 27 13:15:01 beandorf CRON[241]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) > > The second line is generated by syslogd. I don't know where the > first line comes from, probably cron itself. If you rotate the > logs by renaming log -> log.0 -> log.1 -> ..., and then send a > SIGHUP to syslogd, the syslogd lines will start to accumulate in > the new file, but the other lines will continue to accumulate in > the file now named `log.0'. > That's probably why I made the following patch to pathnames.h a good while ago and I could not remember why... With this patch, cron uses only syslg and you can rotate it... --- pathnames.h.orig Sat Aug 27 15:43:04 1994 +++ pathnames.h Tue Jan 3 19:43:53 1995 @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ */ #define ALLOW_FILE "allow" /*-*/ #define DENY_FILE "deny" /*-*/ -#define LOG_FILE "log" /*-*/ +/*#define LOG_FILE "log"*/ /*-*/ /* where should the daemon stick its PID? */ -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD keltia 2.0-BUILT-19950503 #3: Wed May 3 19:53:04 MET DST 1995
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