rotating logs

[G. Roderick Singleton]

jpsp at oberon.fccn.net wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I'm rotating bind logs using a 'move' directly on the files.
> Is this safe?   Is there a "proper" way of doing this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jp
> 
> PS: I have 5 channels defined:  queries,config,stats,error,info.
> None using syslog.


I prefer cp /dev/null logfile in scripting.  You should have a script
that rotates syslogs and messages, please use it as a model. e.g.
/usr/lib/newsyslog
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