[ale] Switching log files

[Bradley Leonard]

Have you tried using logrotate with the postrotate action enabled?
ie:

/var/log/messages {
  rotate 5
  weekly
  postrotate
    /sbin/killall -HUP syslogd
  endscript
}

Brad
 
> Hi, all,
> 
> Does anyone know of a utility for making syslogd cleanly
> switch to a new set of log files without losing any
> messages?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> -- Joe
> 
> *** Joseph Knapka ***
> In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks)
> are to be treated as variables.
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