How can I do this w/o restarting services or rebooting? Thanks! jlc
2009/1/16 Joseph L. Casale <JCasale at activenetwerx.com>:> How can I do this w/o restarting services or rebooting?If I understood well what you are looking for, to manually rotate your logs, you could launch logrotate as follows: logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/<service> -- Giuseppe Fuggiano
>If I understood well what you are looking for, to manually rotate your >logs, you could launch logrotate as follows: > >logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/<service>That was the ticket! thanks! jlc
Joseph L. Casale wrote:> How can I do this w/o restarting services or rebooting? >centos is setup using logrotate, which rotates logs according to various conf files (/etc/logrotate.conf has the global defaults, and /etc/logrotate.d/* has the app specific settings) this is normally invoked every 24 hours from the script /etc/cron.daily/logrotate most logfiles default to weekly rotation, with 4 logfiles kept in rotation, unless you change the appropriate conf files... -some- applications (postgres 8.x comes to mind) have their own log rotation logic and don't use this system. if you really want to do a -manual- rotate, you'd have do something like... cd /dir/of/logfile rm logfile.4 mv logfile.3 logfile.4 mv logfile.2 logfile.3 mv logfile.1 logfile.2 mv logfile logfile.1 touch logfile service whateverservice reload (adjusting the `mv` commands to suit however many files are in rotation)
Joseph L. Casale wrote on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:11:35 -0700:> How can I do this w/o restarting services or rebooting?Neither restarting services nor rebooting rotates logs. man logrotate shows you how to do that manually what logrotate does during the night. You can also do a dry-run. Kai -- Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com
Joseph L. Casale wrote:> How can I do this w/o restarting services or rebooting?copy/truncate. copy log file to a new file and truncate the original (cat /dev/null >filename) Or setup a logrotate config with the copytruncate option. There is a chance I believe to drop some log events between the copy and the truncate depending on how active the log is. Or use a log service such as syslog. nate