Rotate VLC streaming files

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

Matt Kowalski wrote:
> I have a VLC server streaming audio from a scanner over a network which I
> can easily listen to with the VLC player.  I've successfully recorded the
> audio to an mp3 file on Windows and on Linux.  The problem is I want to
> record 24/7 and have the file rotate every day but can't seem to write a
> shell script that will properly rotate the file.  Does anyone have any
> experience with this?
> Thanks,
> Matt


Why not use logrotate?  It already has all sorts of wonderful
conditional rules, it know how to HUP a process, etc...


Logrotate.  It's not just for logfiles anymore.


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