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On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:53:26PM -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to add another option (e.g. 'a<seconds>') which
> > > sends SIGALRM at <seconds> seconds after the last logrotation?
> > 
> > I'll have to think about it, in the meantime you could setup a separate
> > service doing this work, e.g.:
> > 
> >  /var/service/socklogrotate/run:
> >  #!/bin/sh
> >  runsvctrl alarm /var/service/socklog
> >  exec sleep <seconds>
> 
> This would appear to perfectly satisfy the requirement. That suggests to 
> me that adding the functionality to socklog would be bloat.

To svlogd; yes, I tend to agree.  But change the line above to
 runsvctrl alarm /var/service/socklog-unix/log

Regards, Gerrit.