On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 08:42:24AM -0700, PGNet Dev wrote:
> I build/run hostapd on linux.
>
> I use logrotate.d to manage logfiles.
>
> For hostapd, using
>
>
> /var/log/hostapd/hostapd.log {
How do you make that file? With the -f<file> command line argument to
hostapd?
> correctly rolls the log, creating a archive, but there's no more writing to
> the existing/active log. Until I manually *restart* hostapd ...
>
> What's the correct non-connection-terminating postrotate clause
>
> ...
> postrotate
> ???
> endscript
>
> that properly signals hostapd to continue writing to its main log?
If you are using -f on the command line, sending RELOG command over the
control interface (e.g., with "hostapd_cli RELOG") requests hostapd to
close and reopen the log file.
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Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
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