Hey Tom, I don't have a RHEL init script handy, but you may want to take a look inside it to see if /etc/init.d/syslog-ng for 3.0.4 creates a link /var/run/syslogd.pid file to syslog-ng's pid upon starting. This way, the default logrotate does a HUP on syslog(-ng)'s PID with no change necessary to your logrotate configuration. This is of course assuming your /etc/logrotate.d/syslog configuration does a HUP on /var/run/syslogd.pid (which looks to be the default for CentOS 5.4). If it's calling an init script or service reload, you may want to symlink /etc/init.d/syslog to /etc/init.d/syslog-ng, or you could just do as you originally planned and generate an /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng file. To anyone else reading this thread who is using ubuntu 8.04 (and probably other debian releases), logrotate still exists, but log rotation for files such as /var/log/syslog is executed via Cron. Have a look at /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd and you will see a shell script that runs the syslogd-listfiles binary in order to get a list of files that it rotates in that daily cron job. As such, if you're running ubuntu you may have to generate your own logrotate.d/files after your upgrade to syslog-ng (I could be wrong on this though, as I am using my own packaging). Something like this should work: #cat /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng /var/log/syslog { weekly missingok compress create 600 root root rotate 8 sharedscripts postrotate if [ -f /var/run/syslog-ng.pid ]; then \ kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog-ng.pid`; \ fi; endscript } On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Tom Simons <tom.simons@gmail.com> wrote:
We're replacing sysklogd on our RHEL4 & 5 servers with syslog-ng-premium-edition 3.0.4-1.
Has anyone configured logrotate to work with syslog-ng? Can we just build /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng from /etc/logrotate.d/syslog? ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
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