From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 13 07:00:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA01066 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 07:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA01017 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 06:59:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (localhost.lan.awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA01751; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:58:45 GMT Message-Id: <199703131458.OAA01751@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 cc: Harlan Stenn , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp log file In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Jan 1997 19:16:58 GMT." <199701301916.TAA19616@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:58:45 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Are you maintining ppp these days? > > > > If so, did you get my email about needed to rotate the log file upon > > receipt of, say, SIGUSR1? > > > > H > I recall the email. In theory, as ppp uses syslog(), newsyslog & syslog > should co-operate to make this possible and it should be outside of ppp's > control. > > Having said that, I'm not sure that things are working correctly. I'll > look into it and get back. > > -- > Brian , > > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... Yep, in practice, ppp doesn't use syslog() ! I've just commited a change to -current that traps SIGHUP with a "re-open the logfile" routine. I don't yet know if it'll make 2.2-RELEASE. -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....