tag 285871 - moreinfo unreproducible thanks On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 11:26:17PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > While xdm is running, edit /var/lib/logrotate/status and set the date > on /var/log/xdm.log to a couple of days ago, then run: > > logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf > > as root. This causes a new rotation, rather than having to wait for > it. > > After this, you should see: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/log/xdm.log* > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Mar 25 23:16 /var/log/xdm.log > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 1573 Mar 25 23:16 /var/log/xdm.log.1.gz > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo lsof | grep var/log/xdm > xdm 1965 root 2w REG 3,6 8376 179574 > /var/log/xdm.log.1 (deleted) > XFree86 2023 root 2w REG 3,6 8376 179574 > /var/log/xdm.log.1 (deleted) > xdm 2024 root 2w REG 3,6 8376 179574 > /var/log/xdm.log.1 (deleted) > > xdm will now proceed to log into this deleted file. Eventually > xdm.log.1.gz will be rotated out of existance, and xdm will continue > logging into the deleted file, leaving you with no xdm logs at all.
Ahhh, ha. > > > That's the worst logrotate file I've seen in quite a while. > > > > What looks wrong with it? > > > > http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/svn/xfree86/trunk/debian/xdm.logrotate > > > > /var/log/xdm.log { > > notifempty > > missingok > > } > > No 'delaycompress'. No 'postrotate' to tell xdm to reopen the > file. And it relies on /etc/logrotate.conf for most of its values, > which is kinda sloppy. A more normal logrotate entry looks like this: > > /var/log/apache/*.log { > weekly > missingok > rotate 52 > compress > delaycompress > notifempty > create 640 root adm > sharedscripts > postrotate > if [ -f /var/run/apache.pid ]; then \ > if [ -x /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d ]; then \ > invoke-rc.d apache reload > /dev/null; \ > else \ > /etc/init.d/apache reload > /dev/null; \ > fi; \ > fi; > endscript > } Okay. I'll write a new logrotate script for xdm based on the above. Thanks for following up! -- G. Branden Robinson | Any man who does not realize that Debian GNU/Linux | he is half an animal is only half a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | man. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Thornton Wilder
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