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

[Richard E. Perlotto II]

I had noticed the same thing and with the RPM that I had
created for syslog-ng, I modified the logrotate file
for the user.


Richard

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> From: syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu 
> [mailto:syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of 
> seberino@spawar.navy.mil
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 4:52 PM
> To: Jacob Steinberger
> Cc: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng]logrotate question (not working with 
> syslog-ng)...
> 
> 
> 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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