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Date:      Sun, 19 Jan 1997 17:10:31 +0100
From:      roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
To:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: usr.sbin/ppp: reopen ppp.log on SIGUSR1?
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970119171031.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199701191515.HAA12852@squirrel.tgsoft.com>; from mark thompson on Jan 19, 1997 07:15:16 -0800
References:  <199701191515.HAA12852@squirrel.tgsoft.com>

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According to mark thompson:
> Well, this may be ignorance talking, but i thought that daemons that did
> logging were supposed to close/open their logfiles regularly (every
> message?) so that they automatically get the right one after
> rotation. Is this not so?

syslogd(8) keeps all the files open all the time.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
  FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #36: Mon Jan 13 21:43:35 CET 1997



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