Re: how to specify pid file ? (for newsyslog)

15 Feb 2018


      thanks!

2018-02-15 15:58 GMT+05:00 Jan Maria Matejka <jan.matejka@nic.cz>:
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On 02/15/2018 06:56 AM, Илья Шипицин wrote:
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hi,
on freebsd I need to specify pid file in order to send a signal to
rotate log:
/etc/newsyslog.conf:
/var/log/bird.log                       600  7     100  @0101T JC
/var/run/bird.pid SIGHUP
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is there a way to write a pid to file ? I haven't found any
$ bird --help
Usage: bird [--version] [--help] [-c <config-file>] [OPTIONS]
Options:
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  -P <pid-file>        Create a PID file with given filename
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Maria