Re: Very large logfile on torrent1

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Mike McGrath wrote:

>  On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
> > So it looks like bttrack did not properly rotate its log in late
> > August and had been writing to an old inode for a month. This filled
> > up / to 85%. I cat'd the inode to /srv/tmp/oldlog for perusal.. I then
> >
> > grep '2./Sep/2009:' /srv/tmp/oldlog > /var/log/bittorrent/bttrack.log
> >
> > to get the last 4 days (500 mb of stuff) and started up bttrack again.
> > I then did
> >
> > grep '2./Sep/2009:' /srv/tmp/oldlog > bttrack.log.20090919 and gzipped
> > that into /var/log.
> >
>
>  Do we have torrent in logrotate without issuing a -HUP?
>  
or does the server maybe not honor the -HUP :(

-sv