Hello,
I am having trouble understanding the following /etc/logrotate.d/ file
httpd:
/var/log/httpd/*log {
missingok
notifempty
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2>
/dev/null || true
endscript
}
~
The " /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null
|| true " line apparently means "kill the httpd daemon". But why would
you want to kill the httpd daemon after rotating the logs? Furthermore,
what is "|| true" at the end of the line, for?
Furthermore, how would you write the above configuration file to rotate
log files whose names contain the current date (e.g., 20050606.log,
20050607.log, etc.)?
Many thanks.
philippe
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