On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 08:37, Brian Hoover wrote: > The problem I'm trying to solve is rotating the qmail-queue.log file. My rotate > script creates a new file sets the owner & permissions then moves the original file > and moves the new file to qmail-queue.log. > > cd /var/spool/qmailscan > touch ./qmail-queue.log.1 > chmod 600 ./qmail-queue.log.1 > chown qscand:root ./qmail-queue.log.1 > mv ./qmail-queue.log ./qmail-queue.log.uc > mv ./qmail-queue.log.1 ./qmail-queue.log > > The problem is that the log is not used until I restart qmail. > How should this file be properly rotated?
Don't delete the file. Instead, copy it if you want a back log. Then Just pipe text into the old file. ie: cp /var/log /var/log.1 echo "restart" > /var/log You are right, if you delete the file, you have to restart qmail. -- Russel Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.techsane.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
