[ale] Cooperating with logrotate

[Chris Fowler]

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 12:09 -0700, JK wrote:
> Scott McBrien wrote:
> > Check out the logrotate for httpd in /etc/logrotate.d, it sounds like  
> > what you need is a post rotate script like what apache uses.
> 
> 
> Ah.  I think that works because when httpd receives a HUP its signal-
> handler rewinds the logfile.  I can do that, though unfortunately
> it will require a new release of my server code.  Oh well, them's
> the breaks.

Curtis Mayfield (?)


Here is how I handle it in all my programs that log.  I had a similar
issue where logrotate would create "holes".

pseudo 

log() {
  open file in append mode
  write log messages
  close file
  return
}

log("Program starting\n");