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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!concert!sas!mozart.unx.sas.com!torpid.unx.sas.com!sastdr From: sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers) Subject: Re: Rotating the syslogs Sender: news@unx.sas.com (Noter of Newsworthy Events) Message-ID: <C52w0v.H0p@unx.sas.com> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 20:10:07 GMT References: <1p77tt$rq3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <g89r4222.733427031@kudu> <1993Mar29.224423.12286@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: torpid.unx.sas.com Organization: SAS Institute Inc. Lines: 42 In article <1993Mar29.224423.12286@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace) writes: >In article <g89r4222.733427031@kudu> g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes: >>In <1p77tt$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? >-- >********************************************************************* >* Scott Mace internet: smace@nyx.cs.du.edu * >* emace@tenet.edu * >********************************************************************* Yes, there are problems with this... it has to do with the fact that the console (well keyboard) is closed (well; not really since someone else has it open.) The console driver does not keep a count of how many times the device has been open'd. There is a small kludgy fix you can make in the close routine of pccons.c; when in X mode, have the close routine simply return instead of closing the file - this gets around most of the problems (especially the locking keyboard in X problem.) There was quite a lively discussion of this some months ago when I reported the same problem. - Dave Rivers - (sastdr@unx.sas.com (work)) (rivers@ponds.uucp (home)) -- UPDATE ALL INFORMATION AND POD INTO COSMOS - Federal Express