Hello,
I'm running FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0 r260789 on a VPS. When a program's log file is rotated (e.g. /var/log/mailog), I have to restart the program (i.e. OpenSMTPd) in order to receive logs which makes debugging impossible.
This is my /etc/newsyslog.conf:
I added manually the openvpn and dovecot entries. Maybe this is causing the problem, I am not sure. Anyone experienced the same issue or have any idea on how to tackle this?
ps. A solution for me would be switch to metalog. I like metalog better anyway but I would like to understand what is causing this behaviour.
I'm running FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0 r260789 on a VPS. When a program's log file is rotated (e.g. /var/log/mailog), I have to restart the program (i.e. OpenSMTPd) in order to receive logs which makes debugging impossible.
This is my /etc/newsyslog.conf:
root@piseli:/var/log # cat /etc/newsyslog.conf
Code:
# configuration file for newsyslog
# $FreeBSD: release/10.0.0/etc/newsyslog.conf 252481 2013-07-01 21:20:17Z asomers $
# [...]
# logfilename [owner] mode count size when flags [/pid_file] [sig_num]
/var/log/all.log 600 7 * @T00 J
/var/log/amd.log 644 7 100 * J
/var/log/auth.log 600 7 100 @0101T JC
/var/log/console.log 600 5 100 * J
/var/log/cron 600 3 100 * JC
/var/log/daily.log 640 7 * @T00 JN
/var/log/debug.log 600 7 100 * JC
/var/log/init.log 644 3 100 * J
/var/log/kerberos.log 600 7 100 * J
/var/log/lpd-errs 644 7 100 * JC
/var/log/maillog 640 7 * @T00 JC
/var/log/messages 644 5 100 @0101T JC
/var/log/monthly.log 640 12 * $M1D0 JN
/var/log/pflog 600 3 100 * JB /var/run/pflogd.pid
/var/log/ppp.log root:network 640 3 100 * JC
/var/log/devd.log 644 3 100 * JC
/var/log/security 600 10 100 * JC
/var/log/sendmail.st 640 10 * 168 BN
/var/log/utx.log 644 3 * @01T05 B
/var/log/weekly.log 640 5 * $W6D0 JN
/var/log/xferlog 600 7 100 * JC
/var/log/polipo polipo: 640 3 100 * J /var/run/polipo/polipo.pid 30
/var/log/nginx.access.log 600 7 700 * JCN
/var/log/nginx.error.log 600 7 100 * JCN
/var/log/local6.log 600 7 * @T00 JN
/var/log/openvpn.log 600 7 700 * JCN
/var/log/dovecot.log 600 7 100 * JCN
/var/log/dovecot-info.log 600 7 700 * JCN
I added manually the openvpn and dovecot entries. Maybe this is causing the problem, I am not sure. Anyone experienced the same issue or have any idea on how to tackle this?
ps. A solution for me would be switch to metalog. I like metalog better anyway but I would like to understand what is causing this behaviour.