[syslog-ng]deleting log files - syslog-ng]

[Christian Hammers]

Hello

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:11:48PM +0200, Thomas Kaehn wrote:
> 		cp /some/where/file.log /some/where/old/file.log.old
> 		cp /dev/null /some/where/file.log
> 	This way, file still exists and file descriptos are not closed.
> 	However, this is not atomic, one might lose logged lines before
> 	file is truncated.
Better idea:
	mv logfile logfile.old 	
	kill -WHATEVER syslog-ng	
This way it would continue writing into the moved file until I restart it
which would flush buffers, close the file and then crate a new one.

But a fstat() call at each write would be a more elegant solutuion if it
doesn't slow down writing too much.

> 		-MNi
bye,

 -christian-

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