[Dnsmasq-discuss] Where does the complete dump go?

[Simon Kelley]

Paul Chambers wrote:
>
> [root at home logrotate.d]# cat /etc/logrotate.d/dnsmasq
> /var/log/dnsmasq.log {
>         daily
>         # missingok
>         rotate 7
>         compress
>         notifempty
>         postrotate
>           /usr/bin/kill -s SIGUSR2 `cat /var/run/dnsmasq.pid`
>         endscript
> }
> 

You should probably have delaycompress in there: Under some 
circumstances when it closes and re-opens the log files, dnsmasq can 
keep the old file open and continue to write to it for a couple of minutes.

(The exact cicumstance is when a TCP DNS connection is open, the process 
which is forked to handle the connection won't close and reopen. Such 
processes have strictly limited lifetime.)


Cheers,

Simon.