Re: leading null characters produced in script...

Robert Hull <Robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Monday 30 October 2006 06:54, Avalon1178 <Avalon1178@xxxxxxx> wrote
in comp.os.linux.misc:

I'm trying to write a small script using bash that essentially
archives logs to prevent logs from getting too big and take up drive
space.
man logrotate

In his case that will not work, since the program writing to the log file
has the file open (via redirection) and two programs writing to a log file
is not a good idea. If logrotate moves the log file to logfile.1, the
program will continue writing to logfile.1 since it is writing the inode
which has not changed.

In order to allow log file rotation, he has to rewrite the program writing
to the log file so that it can allow the log file to be moved.


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