On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:41:55PM +0100, Alan T DeKok wrote:
> Josip Rodin wrote:
> >> The server needs to be HUP'd for the log rotation to work. It
> >> previously did *not* re-open the log file on HUP. Now it does.
> >
> > No, but that's not what I'm saying. Previously it just kept writing the same
> > file *without* a HUP.
>
> No... it wrote to the same *filename*, but a new *file*. i.e. it
> re-opened the log file on every log message. This is not the normal
> Unix daemon behavior.
>
> > It now no longer does, and it broke all our logrotate
> > setups... is this really necessary?
>
> Yes. It's how the server was intended to work, and it's how Unix
> daemons traditionally work.
>
> Fixing the logrotate scripts is just adding a "post rotate HUP" entry...
OK, so I tried it, and it actually doesn't work for me. I HUP'ed my FR
server process running since Oct 16, that logrotate had previously rotated
out and cleared out. After the HUP, the /var/log/freeradius/radius.log file
is still zero-sized, while the files used by linelog continue to fill up
normally.
Are we sure we are all still talking about the same problem here? :)
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