Re: Problem with log rotation
Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:
> I've got a problem with log rotating in my isdnutils package:
>
> The daemon (isdnlog) writes a view log files (in /var/log/isdn) which
> should be rotated, so that they don't consume much disk space. However,
> the daemon doesn't close these files if idle, so I can't just rotate the
> files, since the gzip would damage the files (I actually tried this ;-)
>
> So what's the best solution to this problem?
Usually there's some way to restart the daemon, like sending it a
SIGHUP. After you rotate the files with savelog, restart the daemon.
Guy
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