Loosing STDOUT after file rotation

[Dan Langille]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, James Housley wrote:

> I have a program that I have the is supposed to run forever.  I log any
> output to a log file.  It is run in a startup script like thie:
>
> program_name >> $err_log 2>&1
>
> The problem is that after newsyslog rotates the $err_log file, no more
> data is written to the file.  I can not stop and restart the program.  I
> can accept a signal.  But what do I need to do in "program_name" to allow
> the data to be written after the "rotation" of the file.

Sorry, I missed the >> above.... I thought you were writing directly.

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