| From: | Claudio Succa <claudio(dot)succa(dot)ml(at)pertel(dot)it> |
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| To: | Dima Tkach <dmitry(at)openratings(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: postmaster and logrotate |
| Date: | 2003-12-22 18:54:05 |
| Message-ID: | 1072119245.722.6.camel@master.to1.pertel.it |
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Il lun, 2003-12-22 alle 19:40, Dima Tkach ha scritto:
> Hi, everybody!
>
> I was wonderring if there is a way to make logrotate work with postgres
> logs?
> More precisely, the question is - is there any way to tell a running
> postmaster process to reopen its log file?
> I tried kill -HUP ... but that doesn't seem to do anything...
>
> Is there just no way to do what I want?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dima
In /etc/logrotate.d create a file named i.e. postgres with more or less
the following contents:
/var/log/postgres.log {
weekly
missingok
rotate 4
copytruncate
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
}
Pls notate the 'copytruncate' option which enables the routing of the
output of syslogd to a new file.
Claudio
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