Re: multilog does not use the file size I specify

Jorge Cuevas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.syslog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks Charles,

I wasn't restarting the log, I didn't realize they were separate, but
now that you mentioned it, it seems obvious.
Thanks everybody for your help.

Jorge


On Mar 16, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Charles Cazabon wrote:

> Jorge Cuevas <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I use the multilog with file rotation, I try to specify the size of
>> the file and the number of files but for some reason is not working.
>> Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
>> My run file is the following:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> exec setuidgid log multilog t s16777215 n25 ./main
>>
>> Right now it just keeps the default config and keeps 10 files of size
>> 99999.
>
> What you've got looks right.  I'm guessing you changed the run  
> script, but
> didn't actually restart the logger subservice after doing so, so  
> it's still
> running the "old" configuration with default values.
>
> Did you remember to `svc -t /service/<servicename>/log/`?
>
> Charles
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