[syslog-ng] who knows the mechanism of syslog-ng writing log fies?

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Mon Sep 24 16:02:32 CEST 2007


On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 18:24 +0800, liuruihong wrote:
> If syslog-ng writes logs to many files,How does syslog-ng write the
> log files?
> 
> do all the logfiles keep opening and being writted in when logs come
> from remote?
> 
> or a certern log file will be closed if there are no log comes during
> a certain time?

Files are closed without activity after the time interval specified by
the time_reap() option.

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Bazsi



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