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From: Grzegorz Czaplinski <gregory@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>
To: jacks@sage-american.com
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Subject: Re: Log dies after rotation
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:18:20AM -0600, jacks@sage-american.com wrote:
> After setting up the newsyslog to rotate natd log, it gets trimmed okay,
> but stops recording afterwards. Have looked everywhere for an explanation,
> but NADA... here is the line in my newsyslog.conf:
> # logfilename          [owner:group]    mode count size when [ZB]
> [/pid_file] [sig_num]
> /var/log/alias.log                      644  3     *    $D0   Z
> 
> It should be pretty simple, but hit a brick wall... been looking at it too
> long! It's set to trim at midnight and now it's 12:16am and no more
> logging. Has been running at about 2MB/day. I thought the permissions was
> set okay, but that about the only thing I haven't changed.
> 
> ...any suggestions appreciated once again... sigh!
Does it start loging when you snap it with a HUP signal?
Probably you lack two more filds: [/pid_file] and [sig_num].
The default signal is SIGHUP so puting a pid file path
should be sufficient.
Give it a try and share the results.
	gregory
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