Re: logrotate and more...

> killall mathopd
> sleep 5
> /usr/local/sbin/mathopd < /etc/mathopd.conf
> endscript
> }
>
>
>
> which kills mathopd.

What one could do is kill mathopd with SIGUSR2, which should cause a
silent and graceful death, but which leaves a window of time (5 seconds)
during which no server runs.

> 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.

Actually you do not even need to do this with mathopd 1.4. It will reopen
the log file automatically every hour.

Cheers
Michiel