[syslog-ng]logrotate question (not working with syslog-ng)...

[Jacob Steinberger]

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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