[rsyslog] how to best rotate files

[Rainer Gerhards]

This, too, is quite old, to-be-replaced on demand functionality ...
without any demand for replacement up to now ;)

Do you know this guide:
http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-log_rotation_fix_size.html

The shell script could spawn off an async process, but I have never
tried this...

Also <inline>:
On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 23:13 -0700, david at lang.hm wrote:
> looking through the rsyslog.conf man page I see ways to tell rsyslogd to 
> run a command when a file is over a given size, but I see no examples or 
> details of what that command can/should do.
> 
> what I want to do is to move the file out of the way, kick rsyslogd so 
> that it starts writing to a new file, then compress the old file (which 
> can take a significant amount of time)
> 
> traditionally I have rotated syslogs by doing a mv of the logfile followed 
> by a kill -HUP of the syslog process (usually out of crontab)
> 
> In my testing of rsyslog I have been doing this, but once in a while 
> rsyslog doesn't release the file it's writing and start a new one, instead 
> it keeps writing to the old file.

This very much smells like a bug. Can you elaborate on what you did?

> 
> so this means that my command can't spawn a background task that does a mv 
> of the file followed by a kill -HUP of rsyslogd.
> 
> what should I be doing?
> 
> David Lang
> 
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