Log rotation

[bpmedley at 4321.tv]

On 3 Aug 2001, 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:
>
> #!/util/bin/bash
> trap 'cp log.recent log.`date -I` ' 1 # SIGHUP
> trap 'exit 0' 13 # SIGPIPE
> while [ read $line ]; do
>     echo "$line" >>log.recent
> done
>
#! /bin/sh

trap 'cp log.recent log.`date -I` ' 1 # SIGHUP
trap 'exit 0' 13 # SIGPIPE
while { read line; }; do                 # worked for me
# while ( read line ); do                # didn't work for me
    echo "$line" >> log.recent
done

YMMV

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