From: Duncan Sinclair <sinclair@dis.strath.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: rolling over high-traffic logfiles?
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:45:20 +0100 [thread overview]
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> is there some easy way to roll over high-traffic logfiles
>in zsh, without losing any possible incoming data?
As it is a syslog log file there is a standard way to do this:
mv /var/adm/extlog /var/adm/extlog.`date`
cp /dev/null /var/adm/extlog
kill -HUP `cat /etc/syslog.pid`
syslogd will continue writing to the old log file until the
kill signal is sent to it.
Nothing is ever lost - as long as syslog is behaving itself!
Hope this helps.
Duncan Sinclair.
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> is there some easy way to roll over high-traffic logfiles
>in zsh, without losing any possible incoming data?
As it is a syslog log file there is a standard way to do this:
mv /var/adm/extlog /var/adm/extlog.`date`
cp /dev/null /var/adm/extlog
kill -HUP `cat /etc/syslog.pid`
syslogd will continue writing to the old log file until the
kill signal is sent to it.
Nothing is ever lost - as long as syslog is behaving itself!
Hope this helps.
Duncan Sinclair.
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> is there some easy way to roll over high-traffic logfiles
>in zsh, without losing any possible incoming data?
As it is a syslog log file there is a standard way to do this:
mv /var/adm/extlog /var/adm/extlog.`date`
cp /dev/null /var/adm/extlog
kill -HUP `cat /etc/syslog.pid`
syslogd will continue writing to the old log file until the
kill signal is sent to it.
Nothing is ever lost - as long as syslog is behaving itself!
Hope this helps.
Duncan Sinclair.
prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-07-16 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-16 3:49 Sweth Chandramouli
1998-07-16 5:08 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-07-16 8:36 ` Zefram
1998-07-16 12:46 ` Brian Harvell
1998-07-16 15:26 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-07-16 16:14 ` Zefram
1998-07-16 16:41 ` Nitin P Garg
1998-07-17 7:36 ` Jos Backus
1998-07-24 23:42 ` Todd Graham Lewis
1998-07-16 13:45 ` Duncan Sinclair [this message]
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