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Can anybody please copy my the rsyslog servcie file you are using in Redhat?
I currently start the service manually and when ever logrotate runs, the service fails - as in, the service still shows as running, but no messages are being accepted from remote devices.
So I want to restart with Cron 5 min after the daily logrotate.
Many thanks in advance!
Marc

I use this in RHEL5 for rsyslogd 3.* witch is without klogd.

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#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 2345 12 88
# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

RETVAL=0

start() {
        [ -x /usr/local/sbin/rsyslogd ] || exit 5

        # Source config
        if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/rsyslog ] ; then
                . /etc/sysconfig/rsyslog
        else
                SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-c3"
        fi

        umask 077

        echo -n $"Starting system logger (rsyslog): "
        daemon rsyslogd $SYSLOGD_OPTIONS
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
        echo -n $"Shutting down system logger (rsyslog): "
        killproc rsyslogd
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/rsyslog
        return $RETVAL
}
rhstatus() {
        status rsyslogd
}
restart() {
        stop
        start
}

case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  status)
        rhstatus
        ;;
  restart|reload)
        restart
        ;;
  condrestart)
        [ -f /var/lock/subsys/rsyslog ] && restart || :
        ;;
  *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart}"
        exit 2
esac

exit $?


lograte has a nice function, called postrotate:

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var/log/syslog
{
        rotate 7
        daily
        missingok
        notifempty
        delaycompress
        compress
        postrotate
                /etc/init.d/rsyslog reload > /dev/null
        endscript
}

No need for a separate cron job