Re: Solaris 2.6 syslod dies on SIGHUP

[carson () tla org]

Ummm... standard log rotation works just fine for me. In POSIX shell,
freehand (so don't blame me for typo's :)

pid=`cat /etc/syslog.pid`
cd /var/log
rm messages.4.gz
for f in 3 2 1 0; do
  mv messages.$f messages.$(($f + 1))
done
# move messages file - syslog still has it open!
mv messages messages.0
# create new file, as syslog won't
touch messages
# SIGHUP syslogd
kill -1 $pid
# syslogd now writing to new file, and the old file should be closed
gzip messages.0

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