On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 03:16:23PM -0800, john heasley wrote:
> Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 03:44:55PM -0700, Rick Kelly:
> > Jeremy C. Reed said:
> > 
> > >newsyslog does the signal before it compresses the newly rotated file (and
> > >after it creates new log file).
> > 
> > Back when www.rmkhome.com was running on NetBSD 1.4, I tried to use newsyslog
> > to rotate the apache logs files. I found that it would rotate the files once,
> > create the new empty log files, but apache would be logging to the old file
> > descriptors, and nothing would get logged until I restarted apache. Has this
> 
> Wouldn't you rather just copy and truncate the log file?  I suggested such
> a feature for newsyslog, but given timing there is a chance that some
> messages could be missed.  Andrew Brown suggested cronolog as a better
> solution for such log files.
	um.. it seems to me that copy+truncate would be a lot more vulnerable to
that. i.e.:
	copy log
	message gets logged
	truncate log
resulting in the last message being lost.

eric