newsyslog questions

[harisman]

Hi to all,

It would be great if you can tell me if there is any way to make newsyslog execute commands instead of sending signals to the pids.

I have some "exotic" services that do not re-create log files with that way in order to rotate them.

I really don't like running many different tools that perform the same job (like additionally installing logrotate from the ports).


Thanks,

Haris

 

[vivek]

I don't think so it is possible. But HUP (restart now) or SIGUSR1 ( graceful restart ) should be sufficient to reopen log files.

HTH

 

[anomie]

It would be great if you can tell me if there is any way to make newsyslog execute commands instead of sending signals to the pids.

That would be nice. I have "worked around" a similar problem by telling newsyslog to rotate a particular logfile on Saturdays at midnight ($W6D0).

Then my script that processes the .0 version of the logfile runs a little later (via a cronjob) on Saturday mornings.

 

[harisman]

I found this post on some old mailing lists. It looks interesting.

Maybe newsyslog have to add this functionality.