logrotate syslog

[Ratzie]

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
}

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

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.

[Ratzie]

Thanks