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Re: [PATCH] git-daemon: fix for rotating logs

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Apr 28, 2008, 18:21 UTC
Message-ID
<20080428182114.GF26880@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To
<alpine.DEB.1.00.0804281908290.19187@eeepc-johanness>
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:08:50PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> > > With rotating logs, there is a problem when the syslog is opened only 
> > > once (in the beginning).  So open the log everytime we write 
> > > something, and close it directly after writing.
> > 
> > Gaah, this is ugly.
> > 
> > Is this something all the daemons need to deal with?
> 
> I have no idea, but it seems to fix a real issue.

logrotate supports sending a signal (typically SIGHUP) to the process after it rotated the log. Couldn't we just re-open the log on SIGHUP?

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Message 4 of 23 in “git-daemon: fix for rotating logs”
  1. git-daemon: fix for rotating logsJohannes Schindelin, Apr 28, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 28, 2008
  3. Johannes SchindelinApr 28, 2008
  4. Miklos VajnaApr 28, 2008
  5. Mike HommeyApr 28, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinApr 28, 2008
  7. Miklos VajnaApr 28, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinApr 28, 2008
  9. Stephen R. van den BergApr 28, 2008
  10. Johannes SchindelinApr 28, 2008
  11. Stephen R. van den BergApr 28, 2008
  12. Johannes SchindelinApr 28, 2008
  13. Stephen R. van den BergApr 28, 2008
  14. Johannes SchindelinApr 28, 2008
  15. Stephen R. van den BergApr 28, 2008
  16. Johannes SchindelinApr 28, 2008
  17. Stephen R. van den BergApr 28, 2008
  18. Andreas EricssonApr 29, 2008
  19. Johannes SchindelinApr 29, 2008
  20. Andreas EricssonApr 29, 2008
  21. Johannes SchindelinApr 29, 2008
  22. Stephen R. van den BergApr 29, 2008
  23. Johannes SchindelinMay 11, 2008

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