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you can send a <literal>SIGHUP</literal> signal to the
<application>syslog</> daemon whenever you want to force it to
start writing a new log file. If you want to automate log
- rotation, the <application>logrotate</application> program can be
+ rotation, the <application>rotatelogs</application> program can be
configured to work with log files from
<application>syslog</application>.
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pipe command:
<programlisting>
-pg_ctl start | logrotate
+pg_ctl start | rotatelogs /var/log/pgsql_log 86400
</programlisting>
The <productname>PostgreSQL</> distribution doesn't include a
suitable log rotation program, but there are many available on the
- Internet. For example, the <application>logrotate</application>
+ Internet. For example, the <application>rotatelogs</application>
tool included in the <productname>Apache</productname> distribution
can be used with <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>.
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server is started in the background, and standard input is attached to
<filename>/dev/null</filename>. The standard output and standard
error are either appended to a log file (if the <option>-l</option>
- option is used), or redirected to <application>pg_ctl</application>'s
+ option is used), or redirected to <application>pg_ctl</application>'s
standard output (not standard error). If no log file is chosen, the
standard output of <application>pg_ctl</application> should be redirected
- to a file or piped to another process, for example a log rotating program,
- otherwise <command>postmaster</command> will write its output to the controlling
- terminal (from the background) and will not leave the shell's
- process group.
+ to a file or piped to another process such as a log rotating program
+ like <application>rotatelogs</>; otherwise the <command>postmaster</command>
+ will write its output to the controlling terminal (from the background)
+ and will not leave the shell's process group.
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