Re: pb with rotate in cf.site

[Mark . Burgess]

I have tested this now and it works as expected. All numbered
files log.1 log.2 etc are renamed to a higher number and then
finally log is *copied* to log.1 and log is emptied.

I cannot explain the behaviour that you are seeing. Perhaps
there is another program rotating the files incorrectly
at the same time.

There does not seem to be any bug in cfengine.
Mark



On 12 Nov, Pierrick PONS wrote:
>> On 10 Nov, Pierrick PONS wrote:
>> > 
>> >> This is incorrect. Cfengine copies the data to a new file and
>> >> truncates the current file to zero size so that writes
>> >> are unaffected.
>> >> 
>> > 
>> > Are you sure ?
>> > 
>> 
>> I wrote it :)
>> 
> 
> So how can you explain this : "
> then cfengine renames the file concerned by appending `.1' to it and a new, 
> empty file is created in its place with the same owner and permissions."
> 
> How does cfengine act when rotating ?
> 
> 1- cp toto.log and >toto.log
> 
> or
> 
> 2-
> mv toto.log toto.log.1
> touch toto.log
> 
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> Pierrick
> 



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