On Monday 20 November 2006 08:09, Anne Wilson wrote: >On Monday 20 November 2006 12:46, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Now if logrotate would work... Its not. See my other post. > >Well, for all the logs that I would expect to rotate, I have files dated >5.11.06, 12.11.06, 19.11.06 and 20.11.06. > >Yet another peculiarity of your install, Gene. > >Anne Yes, and you saw the discussion of my fix I assume. It seems the pid files of some programs contain more than the processes id number, and that breaks the syntax use to HUP the process when rolling over the logfiles. I don't believe this occured under FC2, but I'd have to swap the drives back and reboot to prove it. Programmers who use the *.pid file for a scratchpad just because its handy should be quietly disposed of, well before sunrise. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
