From: Rafael Angarita (rangarita@telcel.net.ve)
Date: Fri Oct 04 2002 - 12:12:40 EDT
Below is the original post, first the answers to both questions:
(thanks to Rene, Randy Romero, John W. Eisenschmidt)
1.-
Rene says:
"You could setup your application to use a different facility (e.g.
local2) and have it create a log with a different name. In this
scenario, you could create (or exclude this log file) that would only
rotate this log file. "
That's right local[0-7] facilities are not rotated by the
/usr/lib/newsyslog crontab entry
John W. Eisenschmidt says:
"If you do it that way, might screw up. This on the other hand:
cp mylog newlog; cat /dev/null > mylog;"
This is a better way to rotate if you write your own script
2.-
Syslog is reliable enough
Original post:
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 questions about syslog:
>
>1.-
> Is it possible to customize the logs rotation when you are using a
> central repository log server?
> I have an application using syslog to forwards its logs to our
>logs central server and I want to rotate only the log associate to this
>application with a frecuency that is not the the same that the others
> logs collected in this server.
> man syslog.conf says nothing about customize the frequency of the
>logs rotation.
> I know the syslog rotation is done using the crontab job
>/usr/lib/newsyslog but it rotates all the logs, if I change the
>frequency of this crontab all the logs will be rotated but that's not
>what I want (I want to rotate logs for only one application).
>
> Is there a way to rotate only the log I want?
> I think "cp mylog newlog; cp /dev/null mylog" is not a good idea,
> due to corruption possibility.
>
>2.-
> By the way, is syslog reliable enough? (it's implemented over UDP,
>but the man pages says nothing about the reliability when forwarding
>to a remote server), I really care each of the application logs line...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
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