Paul Chambers wrote: > Is there some reason you can't use logrotate? -- Paul > > http://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate > http://www.linux.com/articles/48390 > That would be my suggestion. The right options are something like delaycompress create postrotate kill -USR2 `cat /var/run/dnsmasq.pid` This is mentioned in the man page. Cheers, Simon.