Steve McWilliams <stevemc@Radix.Net> writes: > I wonder if anyone has experience with the logrotate utility and can > answer a question about it for me. After reading the man page discussion > about a copytruncate option, it sounded like it was somehow possible > to copy off a log file and truncate it to length 0, and allow the > logging process to continue unaffected. > > After trying this however the behavior I'm seeing is that the log is > copied off, and the logging process is able to continue writing to > the same file descriptor, but the log is not correctly truncated. How is it failing exactly? > I realize this isn't strictly speaking a debian question, so I apologize > in advance if this isn't the correct forum for this question. Anyway, debian-mentor is for packaging-related questions, so it would be more appropriate to debian-user. So please heed the reply-to. -- Robbe
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