void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:04:36PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > I assume you mean "as soon as the configuration file is modified"? > > That would be a big violation of POLA. > > No ...
Yes! > 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". I recommend using newsyslog(8) for rotating log files. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message