From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 15 04:00:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E57816A4D1 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 04:00:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA9743D39 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 04:00:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ws+freebsd-questions@au.dyndns.ws) Received: from lillith-iv.ovirt.dyndns.ws (ppp142-192.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.142.192]) i2FC08wn090399; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:30:10 +1030 (CST) X-Envelope-From: ws+freebsd-questions@au.dyndns.ws X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from [192.168.100.132] (ppp142-192.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.142.192])i2FC056i039506; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:30:07 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from ws+freebsd-questions@au.dyndns.ws) From: Wayne Sierke To: Bart Silverstrim In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1079352005.663.243.camel@ovirt.dyndns.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:30:05 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 X-Scanned-By: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) X-Scanned-By: ClamAV X-Spam-Score: 0 () cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: log rotation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:00:36 -0000 On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 10:37, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > Quick questions: > I've run across some mumblings in the ClamAV lists about Clamd not > logging anymore (or not scanning anymore?) when the maximum > logfile size is reached. Is anyone in FreeBSD running this, and if so, > are you using Newsyslog to rotate the logs? What are your settings > (how would I set it up)? > Having recently installed clamav I was interested in getting log rotation enabled too (5.2-RELEASE). As an experiment I set the when entry in newsyslog.conf to 1 hour. After the log rotation I'm not getting any new entries written to the logfile. I believe I saw somewhere someone claiming that logrotate was working for them (but probably on Linux). Might have to try that instead. Wayne > Elaborations: > I didn't know what would be a safe way to do this, since I also have > an every-four-hour update running for the clamav and I didn't know > what would happen if > A) the update for the database falls at a moment when the log is > rotating > B) I didn't find the "proper" way to rotate the log so Clamd doesn't > have an open file handle on a log being rotated and/or have clamd > try writing to the file while it's being rotated > C) how can clamd have the file rotated without being "temporarily > disabled" running into problems because that disabled clamd may > be called on in that period by amavisd-new to do a virus scan on > a mail message... > > Anyone got a good log rotation scheme in place to handle this > automatically without running into problems? > > Thanks! > -Bart > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"