This one time, at band camp, Justin B Rye said: > I'm not running the daemon, so I'm glad to see the pid-check in the > new /etc/logrotate.d/clamav-freshclam: > > [ -f /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid ] && kill -HUP `cat > /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid` > /dev/null > > However, testing for it this way, the last thing the postrotate > script does is fail to find it, so logrotate reports it as an error: > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: > error: error running postrotate script > run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 > > Now, if you did it this way round (cf /etc/logrotate.d/samba) it > would report an error only if something went wrong with the kill: > > [ ! -f /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid ] || kill -HUP `cat > /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid` > /dev/null
Right - I saw the error of my ways already. What I have actually done is put a new reload_log target in the init script, and let start-stop-daemon do the work. This will be uploaded shortly. Thanks, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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