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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!wupost!dsuvax.dsu.edu!ghelmer From: ghelmer@dsuvax.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer) Subject: Re: Rotating the syslogs Message-ID: <1993Mar31.161718.4449@dsuvax.dsu.edu> Organization: Dakota State University References: <1p77tt$rq3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Mar30.194840.5890@sci34hub.sci.com> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 16:17:18 GMT Lines: 19 In <1993Mar30.194840.5890@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes: >In article <1p77tt$rq3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> david@jake.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (David Nerenberg) writes: >>I am trying to rotate my syslogs from cron. The cron side of things >>is fine. Fir example, I move messages to messages.OLD and touch a >>new messages file. >Don't. Copy messages to messages.OLD, then copy /dev/null into messages. >This leaves the permissions, ownership, and inode number of the messages >file intact; once copied, you can move messages.OLD any way you want >without problems. Doesn't that leave an opportunity to lose messages between the two copy commands, though? -- Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@dsuvax.dsu.edu