logcheck and logrotate

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 12:01:27 PDT 2004


In a 0.5K blaze of typing glory, M.W. Chang wrote:
> I run logcheck.sh at 07:00 and 23:59 respectively. At 00:00, my log 
> rotates. Will logcheck handle its offset files properly after the log 
> rotation? I also wonder how it could cater for that.

I don't quite understand what you're asking. As it is, it sounds like
logcheck might get the file it is checking ripped out from underneath
it. I suppose you could keep logfiles around a little longer before
rotating them.

Kurt
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