[one-users] Rotating the econe-server.log and the sunstone.log

rdiez rdiez at cesga.es
Mon Jan 5 00:34:14 PST 2015


Sorry by the mistake:

The right option is "copytruncate" and not "/copytruncate"....



On 01/05/2015 09:27 AM, rdiez wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Try to add the option "/copytruncate" to your log logrotate setup....
>
>
> By default, log rotate move the logfile and creates a new one. But the 
> file handle that the process uses already points to the moved 
> (renamed) old log file instead the newly created one... so the process 
> already writes in the old log file.
>
> With the "copytruncate" option, the old log file is first copied 
> before "truncate" (i.e. : void its contends) instead moved.... In this 
> manner, the file handle already points to the right file.
>
> Please note that this action launched by the copytruncate option is 
> //much slower that the default action of move the file, so there is 
> possible to lose a few log data while it is working...
>
>
> I hope this helps you.
>
> Cheers
>
> /
> On 01/02/2015 06:30 PM, Steven Timm wrote:
>>
>> I have a logrotate set up for /var/log/one/oned.log and sched.log
>> that works just fine
>>
>> [timm at snowball logrotate.d]$ more oned
>> /var/log/one/*.log {
>>     missingok
>>     daily
>>     notifempty
>>     sharedscripts
>>     postrotate
>>         killall -HUP oned
>>         killall -HUP mm_sched
>>     endscript
>> }
>>
>> However, when I try to have it also rotate the econe-server.log
>> and the sunstone.log it doesn't work.  the new log file appears
>> as scheduled but econe-server keeps writing to the old dated one
>> and the new log file is blank. sending a HUP signal to econe-server
>> does not appear to make any difference.  suggestions?
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
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