Hi,
Before, it wouldn't re-open the file, even if you did HUP it. I'm not sure why you thought it was rotating the log files before... that just didn't work. It opened the log file when the server started, and never touched it again after that.
thats not the behaviour we saw - eg -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 3152191 Oct 23 04:08 radius.log.36 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 2229770 Oct 24 04:09 radius.log.35 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 2589987 Oct 25 04:09 radius.log.34 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 4089171 Oct 26 04:11 radius.log.33 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 4902736 Oct 27 04:10 radius.log.32 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 4618571 Oct 28 04:07 radius.log.31 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 4221713 Oct 29 04:09 radius.log.30 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 3737681 Oct 30 04:09 radius.log.29 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 2328756 Oct 31 04:09 radius.log.28 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 2060983 Nov 1 04:09 radius.log.27 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 3395059 Nov 2 04:10 radius.log.26 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 4934398 Nov 3 04:11 radius.log.25 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 3975604 Nov 4 04:09 radius.log.24 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 3675166 Nov 5 04:09 radius.log.23 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 3220017 Nov 6 04:09 radius.log.22 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 2278344 Nov 7 04:09 radius.log.21 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 1942965 Nov 8 04:10 radius.log.20 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 3298715 Nov 9 04:11 radius.log.19 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 3554339 Nov 10 04:11 radius.log.18 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 3755024 Nov 11 04:09 radius.log.17 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 3882586 Nov 12 04:09 radius.log.16 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 3185965 Nov 13 04:08 radius.log.15 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 1831972 Nov 14 04:08 radius.log.14 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 1894329 Nov 15 04:10 radius.log.13 -rw-r--r-- 1 radiusd radiusd 3620635 Nov 16 04:10 radius.log.12 as you can see, each log file was created and used...and we RARELY restart the server. we certainly dont or didnt HUP it. alan