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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!smace From: smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace) Subject: Re: Rotating the syslogs Message-ID: <1993Mar29.224423.12286@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users. Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept. References: <1p77tt$rq3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <g89r4222.733427031@kudu> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 22:44:23 GMT Lines: 22 In article <g89r4222.733427031@kudu> g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes: >In <1p77tt$rq3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> david@jake.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (David Nerenberg) writes: > >Yu shouldn't really have a problem. Note that the bindist comes >with files /etc/daily and /etc/weekly, which should be run daily >and weekly respectively, to do things like rotating logs. > [stuff deleted] >chmod 644 messages >kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslog.pid` ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I've always had problems with this, my system gets real funky when this executes. I sometimes locks my keyboard in X, and also more(1) complains about not having some ioctl. Strange..... Has anyone else encountered this? -- ********************************************************************* * Scott Mace internet: smace@nyx.cs.du.edu * * emace@tenet.edu * *********************************************************************