How do nagios logs rotate

[scott_yem at agilent.com]

Thanks for that Frank.  I have tried this with hourly rotation and
things are working.  I actually had to use the syntax "tail
--follow=name --retry"  This can also be done by "tail -F name".  Things
are working fine this way.  Thank you to everyone that has replied.

I don't think that I will try to modify the logging.c code, although
that is a good suggestion to look at.  I would have to update my c
coding skills to check the code.  I knew that someone had a solution
that would work without having to modify the code.

Scott Yem
-----Original Message-----
From: frank [mailto:ratty at they.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 5:56 PM
To: YEM,SCOTT (A-Labs,ex1)
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How do nagios logs rotate

Assuming you're using GNU tail, try "tail --follow=name". After Nagios 
rotates the log, your tail process will find the new file and continue
on 
its merry way.

-frank


On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 scott_yem at agilent.com wrote:

> I have a process looking at the log files and noticed that when the
logs
> rotate, my process looking at the log file breaks.  I am using a tail
-f
[snip]



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