On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:04:36PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:39:57PM +0100, void wrote: > > If syslogd used the kqueue interface, I believe it could open a new log > > file as soon as it was created, rather than waiting to receive a signal. > > Would this be worth doing, or would it be too big a divergence from the > > traditional behavior? > > I assume you mean "as soon as the configuration file is modified"? > That would be a big violation of POLA.
No ... The traditional log-rotation dance goes something like: mv log log.0 touch log kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid` gzip log.0 I'm suggesting that the "kill" could be left out if syslogd got the same smarts as "tail -F". -- Ben "An art scene of delight I created this to be ..." -- Sun Ra To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
