mgetty logfiles

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Hi,

Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> 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 ...

If you send a signal -USR2, it will only make mgetty abort if noone is
logging in *right now*. (And if someone is logging in, mgetty will
"terminate" very soon now anyway...)

> 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.

Yep.

gert

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