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From: smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace)
Subject: Re: Rotating the syslogs
Message-ID: <1993Mar29.224423.12286@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 22:44:23 GMT
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In article <g89r4222.733427031@kudu> g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes:
>In <1p77tt$rq3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> david@jake.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (David Nerenberg) writes:
>
>Yu shouldn't really have a problem.  Note that the bindist comes
>with files /etc/daily and /etc/weekly, which should be run daily
>and weekly respectively, to do things like rotating logs.
>

[stuff deleted]

>chmod 644 messages
>kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I've always had problems with this, my system gets real funky when this
executes.  I sometimes locks my keyboard in X, and also more(1)
complains about not having some ioctl.  Strange.....
Has anyone else encountered this?
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