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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Rotating the syslogs
Date: 31 Mar 93 20:36:53
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: ghelmer@dsuvax.dsu.edu's message of Wed, 31 Mar 1993 16:17:18 GMT
In article <1993Mar31.161718.4449@dsuvax.dsu.edu> ghelmer@dsuvax.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer) writes:
>Doesn't that leave an opportunity to lose messages between the two copy
>commands, though?
yes, but the other method is much worse.
and the time it takes between the first cp (to a new file),
and to cp /dev/null into the old one shouldn't be very large...
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass