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From: lee <lee@××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] metalog: postrotate_cmd
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:08:17
Message-Id: 87y4phm1ng.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de
1 Hi,
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3 what happens when a postrotate_cmd started by metalog never finishes?
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5 Am I assuming right that in ...
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8 ,----
9 | postrotate_cmd
10 | postrotate_cmd = "/path/to/a/program". Run specified pro‐
11 | gram after a log file has been rotated. The program is
12 | passed the date, the program name ("metalog"), and the new
13 | logfile name.
14 `----
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17 ... "new logfile name" means the name the old file is renamed to?
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20 --
21 Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons
22 might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.