Subject: Re: newsyslog and apache
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/04/2003 17:38:56
    Date:        Fri, 04 Jul 2003 04:11:38 -0500
    From:        seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
    Message-ID:  <200307040911.h649Bc4o018860@guild.plethora.net>

  | Okay, so, no signal was sent.

This part you solved already...

  | But that's not the weirdest part.
  | 
  |   (append rotation notice to /var/log/messages)
  |   chmod 644 /var/log/messages
  |   kill -HUP 123
  |   sleep for 10 seconds before compressing...
  | 
  | Where's the 123 come from?

That will be syslogd.   Newsyslog assumes  that most log files are
syslogd produced, unless it is told otherwise.   So, it beats on
syslogd (which it simply knows how to locate) by default.

kre