Hello Luggers, A quick question.
Let's say I wanna rotate a log file upon reaching a certain size and the file name is time dependent. logrotate configuration wildcards will not help, so I'm writing a script to do it, my questions is, as per the pseudo below every x time check file size if size > y cp oldfile oldfile-1 && echo > oldfile # (copy-truncate) because processes have open fd's with oldfile fi If the file size is large, cp WILL take some time and CONCURRENTLY data is still being written to the oldfile. *Will cp cater to every byte written to the oldfile up until the micro-second "&& echo kicks in"? Or will there be data loss?* Thanks! -- abulyomon www.KiLLTHeUPLiNK.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### http://Jolug.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo ### Ojuba Linux ### http://ojuba.org/ ### Jordan PHP ### http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
