[syslog-ng]syslog-ng log file rotation based on size

Peter J. Holzer hjp@hjp.at
Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:17:49 +0100


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On 2003-02-02 06:38:49 -0500, Carson Gaspar wrote:
> --On Sunday, February 02, 2003 12:14 PM +0100 Balazs Scheidler=20
> <bazsi@balabit.hu> wrote:
>=20
> >rotate_if_older would be problematic as syslog-ng has no information when
> >it started to write to a given file.
>=20
> stat() will happily tell you the file creation time.

Not on Unix. st_ctime is the time of last change, not the creation time.

	hp

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