Long and powerful chants/prayers/encantations/wizardry may be needed for this one. Goodness knows I've already used up all of mine.

I am debugging a simple perl program on a Solaris box that includes a small section that does about the same thing as newsyslog (i.e. checks if a log file has reached a max size, if so it renames it, creates a new one and sends a SIGHUP to syslogd which makes syslogd write to the new file instead of the renamed one). However on some systems, under some configurations, this doesn't work correctly due to the fact that syslogd is ignoring the SIGHUP.

So I'm trying to find another way to keep the syslog file under a certain size, while moving what's already been logged in other files. Unfortunately, any log loss is unacceptable. Any ideas, pointers, etc?

thanks.

melguin.

In reply to am coming to hate syslog by melguin

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