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Subject: Re: log rotation
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:23:00 +0000
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for i in /var/run/*.pid; do kill -1 `head -n 1 $i`; done

Thank you, this seems to have solved my problem nicely :)

> > Since I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7, I notice the
> > following problem:
> >
> > Once a month when my log files rotate
> > (simply gzipping the old, and the creating a new empty log file
> > via a cron job) the log files stay empty.  all permissions and
> > ownerships are correct.  it takes a "reboot" - then the
> > daemons are able to fill up the new log files - but not
> > until a reboot.
>
>Daemons write logs to a file descriptor (fd) without a syscall it can't
>change fd.
>using mv on a local file system use rename(), so fd is the same, and
>daemon fills this fd. Usually you can send a kill -HUP to the daemon to
>make him look for a new fd.
>
>tipically :
>mv current.log old.log
><fills old.log>
>kill -HUP <pid of daemon>
><fills current.old>
>gzip -9 old.old
>
>and it should work
>
>clem


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