Re: [MiNT] little bug (help!)

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

> > During the NMD build process, I'm trying to implement various
> > functionalities that were not found in KGMD.  One of these is
> > log rotation.  I have made a little bourne script for this:
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > #
> > # ROT_LOG.SH  every Sunday @ 10:01
> > DATE=`date`
> > PID=`cat /var/run/syslog.pid`
> > 
> > echo "* * * * * Recycling system logs * * * * *" > /dev/log
> > mv /var/log/* /var/tmp/
> 
> Why do you move the logs to /var/tmp?  

Because I don't wanna look at 20 different <name>.bak files
when debuging.

> > touch /var/log/wtmp 
> > touch /var/log/lastlog
> > echo -e "FTP log recycled on" $DATE". \n" > /var/log/ftp.log
> > sleep 1
> > kill -HUP $PID
> 
> Try to insert "set -x" somewhere above to see what actually 
> happens in the shell script.  

Let's try it.

> Maybe "$PID" expands to something wrong.

I inserted "echo $PID" and it returned to correct value.
Anyways, this script used to work just fine on my previous
setup, which is what puzzles me.

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