Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 08:54:15 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loosing STDOUT after file rotation Message-ID: <20040402085348.U8697@xeon.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <406C8F4F.1040306@Thehousleys.net> References: <406C8F4F.1040306@Thehousleys.net>
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, James Housley wrote: > I have a program that I have the is supposed to run forever. I log any > output to a log file. It is run in a startup script like thie: > > program_name >> $err_log 2>&1 > > The problem is that after newsyslog rotates the $err_log file, no more > data is written to the file. I can not stop and restart the program. I > can accept a signal. But what do I need to do in "program_name" to allow > the data to be written after the "rotation" of the file. Sorry, I missed the >> above.... I thought you were writing directly. -- Dan Langille - BSDCan: http://www.bsdcan.org/
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