for i in /var/run/*.pid; do kill -1 `head -n 1 $i`; done
Thank you, this seems to have solved my problem nicely :)
> Since I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7, I notice the > following problem: > > Once a month when my log files rotate > (simply gzipping the old, and the creating a new empty log file > via a cron job) the log files stay empty. all permissions and > ownerships are correct. it takes a "reboot" - then the > daemons are able to fill up the new log files - but not > until a reboot.
Daemons write logs to a file descriptor (fd) without a syscall it can't change fd. using mv on a local file system use rename(), so fd is the same, and daemon fills this fd. Usually you can send a kill -HUP to the daemon to make him look for a new fd.
tipically : mv current.log old.log <fills old.log> kill -HUP <pid of daemon> <fills current.old> gzip -9 old.old
and it should work
clem
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