On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 10:10, cajun wrote: > Hi all, > > One quick question bout logrotate, if someone could turn the light on > for me I would be greatly in your debt. In the example of logrotate > they use the command killall. Are they stopping the link between the > log file and the process at this point? The reason I am asking, I have > a couple of logs that I want to add and was wondering if this is necessary? I'm not sure what version of RH you're using, but RH9's logrotate scripts use kill (on my box). Either way, yes, a kill/killall -HUP (interrupt signal) is used to stop the process (closing the write on the old logfile), and start the process (opening the write on the new logfile). View the killall manpage to understand how it's different from kill. -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
