Very large logfile on torrent1

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Mike McGrath wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
>> So it looks like bttrack did not properly rotate its log in late
>> August and had been writing to an old inode for a month. This filled
>> up / to 85%. I cat'd the inode to /srv/tmp/oldlog for perusal.. I then
>>
>> grep '2./Sep/2009:' /srv/tmp/oldlog > /var/log/bittorrent/bttrack.log
>>
>> to get the last 4 days (500 mb of stuff) and started up bttrack again.
>> I then did
>>
>> grep '2./Sep/2009:' /srv/tmp/oldlog > bttrack.log.20090919 and gzipped
>> that into /var/log.
>>
>
> Do we have torrent in logrotate without issuing a -HUP?
>

or does the server maybe not honor the -HUP :(

-sv