mgetty logfiles

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Udo Erdelhoff (udo@iml.fhg.de) wrote:
> I'm using mgetty-1.0.0 on a Sun Sparcstation 2 with SunOS 4.1.3. Almost
> everything works fine, only the logfiles give me a lot of trouble. I need
> to archive mgetty's logfiles on a weekly basis. Unfortunatelz, mgetty
> keeps his logfile open. I can create a backup of the logfile without
> problems; if I try to cut it (cp /dev/null /var/log/mgetty.log.cua0),
> things get ugly ...

I do it that way:
 mv logfile tempfile
 kill `cat /var/run/mg-pid.ttyS0

Of course you also kill whoever is logging in at that time, so ...

Other idea:
 mv temp-file the_file
 mv logfile temp-file

In that case, you have one day (supposing you do it every day) for
the log-file to be closed by mgetty.

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