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

[Frank Crawford]

Nate,
	You need to add the option "sharedscripts", which only runs the script
once for all the matches, e.g. the Red Hat syslog file is:

/var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler
/var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron {
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2>
/dev/null || true
    endscript
}

BTW, I don't think this option was in the original logrotate, but I know
it has been around for a while.  I've seen it since at least Red Hat
7.1.

Frank

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 01:18, nate wrote:
> > Nate
> >
> > Why didn't you just modify the logrotate
> > script for syslog?... else how is your own
> > script called when a rotation happens?
> 
> I did originally call the script from the "postrotate" option
> within logrotate.. but that didn't work so hot, turns out the
> postrotate option is called after every log, so in my case
> /var/log-ng/* restarted syslog-ng about 30 times. I suppose
> I could create an entry for every log but that would mean more
> long term maintainence of the file for the new messages.* files
> that are from new hosts.
> 
> unless theres another way..
> 
> nate
> 
> 
> 
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