[Zope] Re: Zope & logrotate

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:16:10PM -0400, Jake wrote:
> Bobb said:
> >> > Sure you can, I do it every night with a cron job.
> >> >
> >> > The only thing to be careful of is that you want a postrotate
> >> > script that tells zope to reopen the log file.
> >> > See doc/SIGNALS.txt to learn how to tell zope that,
> >> > and the logrotate man page to learn how about postrotate.
> 
> I read this...
> http://cvs.zope.org/Zope/doc/SIGNALS.txt?rev=1.3.44.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> 
> But could you send an example, currently I have:
> 
> 	postrotate
> 	  /usr/bin/kill -USR2 `cat /usr/local/zope/var/Z2.pid`
> 	endscript
> 
> Which I think is dead wrong.

I don't think that's a valid option to kill, at least not on linux.
This is the logrotate conf file that I have:

### begin #######################
compress

/www/logs/z_access_log/current /www/logs/z_big_m_log/current /www/logs/z_event_log/current {

           rotate 20 
           size=100k
           # run the postrotate command only once, not for each log...
           sharedscripts
           postrotate
               # see doc/SIGNALS.txt in the zope source distribution
               /bin/kill -s SIGUSR2 `cat /zope/InstanceHome/var/Z2.pid` 
           endscript
}
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