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List:       wuftpd-questions
Subject:    Re: Log Question..
From:       "Gregory A Lundberg" <lundberg () vr ! net>
Date:       2001-03-26 22:19:40
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> RH 7.0 - wu-ftpd version 2.6.1
> I have cron scripts running checking  /var/log/xferlog for specific
uploads
> and act on it.  The problem is when the xferlog file first makes a backup
> and cycles itself to a new xferlog, It has 0 bits or not there at all
until
> the next ftp xfer.  This is giving me problems.
> My questions is, what determines when a new log files is needed?  What
> controls this? Is this wu-ftp or Linux?
> Please point me in the right direction.

We don't do a thing with log rotation.  Must be something Redhat's done.

Personally, I pipe the xferlog through a named pipe and have a daemon read
the pipe and rotate the logs.  On Redhat machines, I then kill off their
entire, lame, log-rotation scheme since it doesn't work (not only does it
not work for WU-FTPD, but it does not work for syslog, Sendmail, Apache or
anything else you care to run).

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