Vsftpd rotate logs with newsyslog...

[Agus]

2008/6/20 Agus <agus.262 at gmail.com>:

> 2008/6/19 David Robillard <david.robillard at gmail.com>:
>
>> > Well yes, this is precisely the reason why we use a SIGHUP (equivalent
>> to
>> > "apachectl restart") instead of a SIGUSR1 (apachectl graceful). We don't
>> > really care about a few broken client connections since the logs are
>> rotated
>> > at a quiet time.
>> >
>> > Of course, YMMV.
>>
>> Yes, of course :)
>>
>> > regards,
>> > Ruben
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> DA+
>> --
>> David Robillard
>> UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA
>> CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator
>> Montreal: +1 514 966 0122
>>
>
>
> Thank u all very much guys....i will see if i do a graceful or simply a
> restart cause i dont think the apache will be getting too many connections
> all the time....but that clarifications was quite good David....and thank u
> for the example....that is always the best way to understand things...much
> appreciated...
>
> Will try both....just a question about compression...What i understood from
> your mail is that as apache takes some time to let his children close all
> connections i shouldn zip those logs cause, newsyslog wont wait till apache
> finishes and probably will xip logs that are still being access by the
> children? if htat is the case using a HUP will close all and allow me to use
> compresion?
>
> Cheers,
> Agustin
>


Sorry guys...got one more doubt....Why do u use B (binary) if apache logs
are simple text? any particular reason?

Thanks