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Re: Rotate log problem

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Subject: Re: Rotate log problem
From: Peter Palfrader <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:24:02 +0100
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, leandro noferini wrote:

> I found a  trouble rotating log for the tor server  tortuga: log will be
> rotated using the program savelog in a cron job (on GNU/Linux). When the
> job ends I find the logs empty  and I need to restart the server to have
> something in the logs. 
> 
> Is there another way to resolve this? 

Send the Tor processes a HUP signal after rotating the files.  Receiving
a HUP will - among other things - reopen the log files.  That's quite
common unix daemon behaviour.

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