Re: [Proftpd-user] Mind the gap - log files rotate while single-minded FTP fixedly forges forward

[TJ S. <tj...@ca...>]

> Checking, the files were indeed arriving, but the transfers log web
> page query insisted nothing had been seen since Sunday
> 03:58.  Thinking my little daemon xfsuck had broken, I tried other
> queries which worked just fine.  Other users' and userids' recent
> transfers were being recorded in the database.  Checking
> /var/log/xferlog those other userids were well-represented, but the
> camera userid was totally absent.  Transfers, but no transfers in
> xferlog, for this one user???
>
> Well, no transfers in >this< xferlog.  Checking /var/log/xferlog.1
> found the missing transfers from today/yesterday.  ProFTPd was still
> updating _both_ the current and the older xferlog files!?

For the reasons why rotating TransferLogs doesn't work as one might
assume, see:

  http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2132

TJ

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