You can have logrotate entries like the following: # rotate some Logs /logdirectory/messages { weekly rotate 12 compress postrotate /usr/bin/pkill -HUP syslog endscript } What this does is simply rotate the log, and then send HUP to Syslog-NG to stop it from writing to the current inode which points to the recently rotated logfile. This specific configuration will rotate weekly, keeping 12 compressed revisions using GZIP. I hope this helps, Justin. _____ From: Padmanabhan, Rajeesh (GE Healthcare) [mailto:Rajeesh.Padmanabhan@ge.com] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 6:16 AM To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list Subject: RE: [syslog-ng] Syslog-ng log file overwrite Basically what i am trying to configure is log rotation of Syslog-ng files.. _____ From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Padmanabhan, Rajeesh (GE Healthcare) Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 3:52 PM To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list Subject: [syslog-ng] Syslog-ng log file overwrite Hi Bazsi, Do syslog-ng overwrites log file by default? If yes, what is the process/strategy done by syslog-ng to overwrite the file? Thanks, Rajeesh