do you want to make the changes that michiel recommended? if so, i'll wait to put it on the mathopd how-to i wrote. if not, i'll put it up now.
-- mattg - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [hello to all my fans in domestic surveillance]
Thomas E. Horner wrote:
on your site http://apathy.guiltyparty.org/u/doc/mathopd/ i found the following:
if you use logrotate to manage /var/log, create a file called "mathopd" in /etc/logrotate.d/ and insert this:
/var/log/mathopd/log.* {
weekly
missingok
rotate 7
compress
create 640 daemon daemon
sharedscripts
postrotate
killall mathopd
sleep 5
/usr/local/sbin/mathopd < /etc/mathopd.conf
endscript
}
which kills mathopd. that's bad housekeeping and unnessacary.
see the attached file (an init-script) i wrote.
option 'force-nextlog' reopens the log, which is given by Log /var/mathopd/log/%Y-%m-%d in mathopd.conf.
at 00:00:00 daily cron executes the script /etc/init.d/mathopd force-nextlog so i get a daily log without any extra program.
it was originally written for suse linux and it needs some customizing but can do a great job. you can put it on your web-page if you'd like to.
