Log rotation

[ddm at pizzashack.org (Derek Martin)]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 08:53:14PM -0000, Seth Gordon wrote:
> Hmm, I'll have to look at that Logfile::Rotate module on Monday.  Thanks.
> 
> If anyone has entirely too much free time over the weekend, they can
> explain to me why this script doesn't copy its input into the log file
> (as I expected), but just seems to write a stream of blank lines:

This is your problem:

> while [ read $line ]; do

This test is always true, because the string "read" contains
characters.  However, you haven't asked it to read a line, so the
variable $line is always null for the duration of your script (unless
it inherited a value from the parent shell).  

You may have more success if you remove the brackets and the `$' like so:

  while read line; do

HTH.

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