On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:37:05AM -0700, Sam wrote:
I checked the FAQ and man page...
Is there a signal I can send to fetchmail to have it close
and reopen its logfile? (freopen(2))
Why? If I move "log" to "log.0" and then awake fetchmail it
continues to log to log.0. How can I get it to log to
"log"? I don't want to kill the daemon.
This seems like basic daemon/log behavior so I'm surprised
if I'm the first to ask about it. :-)
I use this script in /etc/logrotate.d/.It restarts the daemon instead
of just killing it.
/var/log/mail/fetchmail.log {
missingok
postrotate
/etc/rc.d/init.d/fetchmail restart > /dev/null || /bin/true
endscript
}
HTH
Ray Warren