logrotate and more...

"Thomas E. Horner" <[email protected]> Fri, 04 Apr 2003 00:28:05 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.mathopd
Message-ID <[email protected]>
on your site http://apathy.guiltyparty.org/u/doc/mathopd/
i found the following:


if you use logrotate to manage /var/log, create a file called "mathopd" in 
/etc/logrotate.d/ and insert this:
/var/log/mathopd/log.* {
weekly
missingok
rotate 7
compress
create 640 daemon daemon
sharedscripts
postrotate
killall mathopd
sleep 5
/usr/local/sbin/mathopd < /etc/mathopd.conf
endscript
}



which kills mathopd.
that's bad housekeeping and unnessacary.

see the attached file (an init-script) i wrote.

option 'force-nextlog' reopens the log, which is
given by
	Log /var/mathopd/log/%Y-%m-%d
in mathopd.conf.

at 00:00:00 daily cron executes the script
	/etc/init.d/mathopd force-nextlog
so i get a daily log without any extra program.


it was originally written for suse linux and
it needs some customizing but can do a great job.
you can put it on your web-page if you'd like to.
mathopd.init_d (text/plain, 5.3 KB)
begin 600 mathopd.init_d
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