On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 12:07 +0100, RedShift wrote: > Hello all > > I just uncovered some secret plot against me by the government. It > appears after logrotate runs every week, instead of logging continuing > with the newly logfiles, it continues to log to the rotated files! > > Example: > > we have auth.log > after logrotate this becomes auth.log.1 > a new empty file auth.log is created > logging continues on auth.log > > What's happening? > we have auth.log > after logrotate this becomes auth.log.1 > a new empty file auth.log is created > logging continues on auth.log.1 > auth.log remains empty. > > syslog-ng and logrotate configuration haven't been altered from the default. > > > Any ideas on how to resolve this?
Yes, syslog-ng should get kicked after rotation. Without a kill -HUP it will keep the filedescriptors opened to the rotated file. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
