How to restart logging

[G. Roderick Singleton]

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> Hi ...
> 
> When I rotate my system logs (logrotate on RedHat Linux), named doesn't
> successfully restart logging.  Can I make it reopen the log without
> restarting named and losing the cache?
> 
> From the named.conf file:
> 
> logging {
> 	channel logfile {
> 		file "/var/log/named.log";
> 		severity info;
> 		print-time yes;
> 	};
> 	category default { logfile; };
> };
> 
> Mojo
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> 
> 

Use ndc as you've already been told or fix your logrotate script to be more
sensible in its handling of open files. e.g.

...
cp log log.<something> # snapshot file
cp /dev/null log # zero open file
...

should do it for you as you are maintaining the file that named is using.

This is an old technique that you should be able to read about in more detail in
most basic system administration books.

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