Re: monit logfile and logrotate

[Nick Upson]

Hi,

the copytruncate should take care of that, it copies the file and then truncates it. except with monit when the truncate doesn't work

On 20 July 2011 13:41, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

you need to do "monit reload" in the logrotate's postrotate section to open the new logfile, otherwise it continues to write to the same file.


Regards,
Martin

On Jul 20, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Nick Upson wrote:

> I currently have a logrotate config for the monit logfile that just does a copytruncate, but it seems to only do the copy, the logfile continues to grow.
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> Using 5.2.5-1, does anyone have a working logrotate config they can share?
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