Re: Multilog failing to rotate logfiles

Otavio Exel

I think I might have found it.  At 0400 JST I run my daily cron, and I 
run logwatch so I can get a dump of the logfiles.  Well anyway, I run a 
script on the qmail log files that basically looks like it is dumping 
itself into itself.  Don't know why I didn't catch it before.  As for 
the other times, I think that is about when I get into work and I stop 
and start the qmail server to refresh the logfiles.  I have changed the 
script to use temp files, which is the way I think it is supposed ot be 
and will see the results in the morning.  I will follow up tomorrow (my 
time).  Thanks so much to Otavio Exel for helping me out with this.  I 
have learned some new techniques when working with Qmail.

Regards,
Robert Fisher
Inphase Co., Ltd.
[email protected]


Otavio Exel wrote:

>Robert Fisher wrote:
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>>Now I am positive that it said to do this in the LWQ guide to set up
>>Qmail with Daemontools.  I went back and looked at it, and I can't
>>find it anywhere there.  Will this cause my log files from not
>>rotating on their own when they get to 10 MB?
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>no. svc -a should not break the rotating;
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>but there is something else messing whith the multilog's from cron or
>some other time based thing; the timestamps of the files that did *not*
>rotate at 13:00:00 BRT are:
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>	2004-11-21 04:52:41.313865500
>	2004-11-21 04:52:41.313615500
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>	2004-11-22 00:33:10.215929500
>	2004-11-23 23:59:49.379070500
>	2004-11-25 00:04:24.693561500
>	2004-11-22 00:33:10.216150500
>	2004-11-23 23:59:49.379265500
>	2004-11-25 00:04:24.722503500
>	2004-11-23 23:59:49.417103500
>	2004-11-25 00:04:24.722694500
>
>see? it looks like some time-based stuff!
>
>if they are doing something harmless like svc -a then it is ok.
>but you should try to find what it is just to be sure!
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>[]s,
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