Thanks!!! I did not touch logrotate conf file. I just swapped syslog with syslog-ng and hoped nothing would break. This is a really bad gotcha because I would guess lotsa of people will make this mistake. Is there no way to make syslog-ng NOT require modification of logrotate? Do most people on this list know that? I hope so. Chris On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 06:27:10PM -0400, Jacob Steinberger wrote:
In your logrotate settings, did you send a restart to syslog-ng or a HUP to it? You need to do one of the two because the INODE on the file changes and syslog-ng isn't built to follow INODEs...
Jacob
For some reason every time logrotate rotates /var/log/messages, my syslog-ng stops working.
The permissions look ok..
[office root /var/log] # ls -l mess* -rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 6 04:02 messages -rw------- 1 root root 378135 Apr 7 15:15 messages.1 -rw------- 1 root root 908864 Mar 31 15:50 messages.2 -rw------- 1 root root 1795514 Mar 25 14:06 messages.3 -rw------- 1 root root 945373 Mar 19 11:31 messages.4 -rw------- 1 root root 7 Apr 7 14:24 messages.offset
Why does logrotate cause syslog-ng to not put any new stuff in /var/log/messages?
Chris
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