2.0.4b: logrotate problems with rh60

Stephen L Arnold sarnold at coyote.rain.org
Sun Jul 11 00:48:59 GMT 1999


On 11 Jul 99, giulioo at tiscalinet.it (Giulio Orsero) had questions 
about 2.0.4b: logrotate problems with rh60:  

[snip]
> If I put "endscript" in place of "endrotate" then log.smb is rotated too.

Okay.

> 2)
> It seems that once the log file is rotated smbd keeps logging to the old
> renamed/rotated file. Is "killall -HUP smbd" (since it is used as the
> postrotate script) supposed to tell smbd to reopen the log file?
[snip]

I'm not sure; maybe you should try "/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart" 
instead.  It's worth a try.

Steve



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