Normally this situation is handled by sending a SIGHUP to the server concerned:
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd
endscript
But the Fedora guys seem to be using it without any signals:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=xrootd.git;a=blob;f=xrootd.logrotate;h=80ae68d8983930d23ad73fbbd665ab1264a16a14;hb=HEAD
Andy, how is this handled in the daemons?
Cheers,
Lukasz
2011/5/12 Lukasz Janyst <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hi Doug,
>
> good question. Probably not. I will check.
>
> Cheers,
> Lukasz
>
> 2011/5/12 Doug Benjamin <[log in to unmask]>:
>> Dear Lukasz,
>>
>> I agree that using the linux standard logrotator tool is the best way to go.
>> Does log rotator require xrootd to start and stop so that the pointers to the files
>> are disconnected during the rotation.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> On May 12, 2011, at 2:48 AM, Lukasz Janyst wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Tanya,
>>>
>>> we will cut the second rc after we do some testing with this one.
>>> Your request raises a more general question of how we should handle
>>> the log rotation. Specifying it as a parameter for xrootd in the
>>> sysconfig file has an advantage of keeping all the settings together
>>> but I would argue that we should use the standard logrotator (man 8
>>> logrotate) of Linux as it is far more flexible and is widely
>>> considered as "the" tool for this sort of job which is what most
>>> admins would probably expect.
>>>
>>> Let me know what you think.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Lukasz
>>>
>>> 2011/5/12 Tanya Levshina <[log in to unmask]>:
>>>> Hi Lukasz,
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, but I just have noticed that [-k NUM] option is still missing from /etc/sysconfig/xrootd configuration. This option controls the number of days the log files will be kept.
>>>>
>>>> Could you please add this and cut a new rc?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>> Tanya
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Lukasz Janyst <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:58 am
>>>> Subject: XRootD tag and RPMs
>>>> To: xrootd-dev <[log in to unmask]>, Doug Benjamin <[log in to unmask]>, Tanya Levshina <[log in to unmask]>, Douglas Strain <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have made a rc1 tag and built the RPMs which you can access here:
>>>>> http://xrootd.cern.ch/sw/releases/3.0.4-rc1/
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Lukasz
>>>>
>>
>>
>
