topic Re: logrotate syslog in Operating System - HP-UX

logrotate syslog

Ratzie — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:55:16 GMT

I have installed logrotate to rotate some off the system logs and other logs as well.

When logrotate rotated the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log it did not restart the daemon nor did I get another syslog.log

How would I set it up...
I thought I would have to HUP the daemon...

#Syslog

/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log {
rotate 7
weekly
postrotate
/usr/sbin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}

Re: logrotate syslog

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:59:36 GMT

A SIGHUP only causes syslogd to reread its configuration file. You actually need to send it a SIGTERM to stop the daemon, then rotate the logs, and restart the daemon.

Re: logrotate syslog

Ratzie — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:17:11 GMT

Thanks