Log Rotation

[Alan DeKok]

barry steyn wrote:
> Now in my particular case when newsyslog runs from cron it finds that
> radius.log, sqltrace.sql and one of the radacct/*/* files have exceeded
> their filesize, so it renames them (*.log.n), touches a new file, in the
> case of radius.log sends a SIGHUP to radiusd and then proceeds to bzip
> the renamed logfiles. As you would expect.

  Don't HUP the server when you rename the log file.  It's not necessary.

> The problem is that when radiusd is running normally it starts to chew
> up 98% CPU from this point onwards and completely stops responding to
> accounting packets. I have to killall -9 radiusd, it won't even respond
> to my SIGTERM. Running in debug mode unfortunately just causes radiusd
> to segfault a few seconds after the log rotation (see output below).

  1.1.x doesn't handle HUP very well.  We hope to fix this in 2.0.0

  Alan DeKok.
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