[Zope] Re: Zope & logrotate

[Jake]

Paul,

This worked like a charm. I added a FAQ about it.

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Paul Winkler said:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:16:10PM -0400, Jake wrote:
>> Bobb said:
>> >> > Sure you can, I do it every night with a cron job.
>> >> >
>> >> > The only thing to be careful of is that you want a postrotate
>> >> > script that tells zope to reopen the log file.
>> >> > See doc/SIGNALS.txt to learn how to tell zope that,
>> >> > and the logrotate man page to learn how about postrotate.
>>
>> I read this...
>> http://cvs.zope.org/Zope/doc/SIGNALS.txt?rev=1.3.44.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
>>
>> But could you send an example, currently I have:
>>
>> 	postrotate
>> 	  /usr/bin/kill -USR2 `cat /usr/local/zope/var/Z2.pid`
>> 	endscript
>>
>> Which I think is dead wrong.
>
> I don't think that's a valid option to kill, at least not on linux.
> This is the logrotate conf file that I have:
>
> ### begin #######################
> compress
>
> /www/logs/z_access_log/current /www/logs/z_big_m_log/current
> /www/logs/z_event_log/current {
>
>            rotate 20
>            size=100k
>            # run the postrotate command only once, not for each log...
>            sharedscripts
>            postrotate
>                # see doc/SIGNALS.txt in the zope source distribution
>                /bin/kill -s SIGUSR2 `cat /zope/InstanceHome/var/Z2.pid`
>            endscript
> }
> ##### end ###################
>
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