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

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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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