On 11/5/05, Steve G <linux_4ever@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Is there something other than the size of the logfile that can be used > >to cause the rotation? Would an RFE for a command to the deamon to cause > >a rotation be appropriate? How about something in the config file to > >tell it "daily" or similar? > > OK. I thought about this problem. Keeping track of time and deciding when to > rotate is an ugly problem. What I decided to do is make sigusr1 force a rotation > of the logs. > > I added a rotate command to the initscript so that you can do "service auditd > rotate". Then I created a small script that is stored in the docs directory, > /usr/share/doc/audit-1.0.10/auditd.cron, since I don't want it installed by > default. The script is intended to be used with cron so that you can force a > rotation at whatever is convenient - daily, weekly, every 12 hours. > Wouldnt it be better to add this to logrotate? There are several programs that get rotated and get a signal to them to get to a new log. The details being getting the signal without losing events or soemthing.. need more sleep. -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
