ipmon fills up partition

[Melvyn Sopacua]

On Saturday 17 April 2004 18:00, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> > Adding /var/run/ipmon.pid at the end of newsyslog.conf line above stops
> > the above symptom, but ipmon stopped logging after each rotation.
>
> This should be the correct thing to do: ipmon should interpret a HUP
> signal to mean 'reopen log files' -- unless it's changed dramatically
> between 4.x and 5.x[*], in which case you'll have to hunt down what
> should be done instead by reading the documentation or the code or
> something.

It does:
ipmon.c:1452
                       if (donehup) {
                                donehup = 0;
                                if (newlog) {
                                        fclose(log);
                                        log = newlog;
                                        newlog = NULL;
                                }
                        }


And:
static void handlehup(sig)
int sig;
{
        FILE    *fp;

        signal(SIGHUP, handlehup);
        if (logfile && (fp = fopen(logfile, "a")))
                newlog = fp;
        init_tabs();
        donehup = 1;
}

The only codepath I can see, that could cause this behavior, would be if the 
fopen fails, because newsyslog is holding a lock on the file at the time it 
signals ipmon.

-- 
Melvyn

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