Re: system logs not getting rotated
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:19:52AM -0500, Mark S. Reglewski wrote:
> I just flipped a potato installation to woody on Saturday, April 6. My
> cron.daily/sysklogd script has the same line with the 'reload-or-restart'
> argument, which should be bogus according to Debian Policy, section 10.3.2,
> which recognizes as legitimate arguments only 'start', 'stop', 'restart' and
> 'force-reload', or optionally, 'reload'. The line in question *looks* like
> a piece of pseudo-code that was inserted while the author was debating
> whether to restart the daemon with a restart or reload argument, but
> inadvertently left in the final version of the script.
D'oh. Just tested this. In potato, as root:
/etc/init.d/sysklogd reload # works
/etc/init.d/sysklogd restart # works
/etc/init.d/sysklogd reload-or-restart # fails with message:
Usage: /etc/init.d/sysklogd {start|stop|reload|restart|force-reload}
In woody *all three* commands *work*. That's right, the 'reload-or-restart'
argument works. It restarts the logging daemon without error. So Rick,
whatever is b0rking your system logging, it's not that line in
/etc/cron.daily/sysklogd.
Looks like documentation is running a little behind development here.
My chin just hit the keyboard. Time for some sleep.
Cordially,
Mark S. Reglewski
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