Ipmon & security log rotation

[Dick Davies]

You need to either tell newsyslog the pidfile, so it can HUP
ipmon, or just get it to use syslog (in which case newsyslog
doesn't need to HUP it at all).

* Gareth Bailey <blygar1 at webmail.co.za> [0616 14:16]:
> The -D flag tells it to run as daemon. Starting ipmon with
> ipmon_flags="-D /var/log/security" in rc.conf works fine.
> It logs to security as required. The problem comes in when
> the /var/log/security file is rotated by newsyslog. After
> this occurs, logging stop all together even though ipmon is
> still running!
> 
> Thanks
> Gareth
> 
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:52:40 -0400
>  "JJB" <Barbish3 at adelphia.net> wrote:
> > If you are saying that you have "/sbin/ipmon -D
> > /var/log/security"
> > on the rc.conf statement, then you are telling it to do 2
> > conflicting things. The /var/log/security part needs to
> > be removed.
> > It's telling ipmon to use manual log file after you tell
> > with -d to
> > use syslog log function.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of
> > Gareth
> > Bailey
> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 8:16 AM
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Ipmon & security log rotation
> > 
> > I start ipmon at boot time with "/sbin/ipmon -D
> > /var/log/security". Ipmon works fine but seems to stop
> > logging entries to the security logfile when it is
> > rotated.
> > 
> > newsyslog.conf sets mode to 700, which should be fine
> > since
> > ipmon is run as root (i think?)
> > 
> > How could i correct this?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Gareth
> >
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