Logfile rotation

[Beirne Konarski]

On Friday 26 September 2003 02:53 pm, Renaud Deraison wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:41:52PM -0400, Beirne Konarski wrote:
> > My logfiles are hitting 2GB and causing nessusd to crash.  I'd like to do
> > some rotation to manage them.  What is the safe way to do this?  I assume
> > a kill -1 will interrupt any running scans.  What happens if I just
> > truncate the file?  Or do I need to just reset nessus?
>
> Move the file, then do :
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> 	kill -1 `cat /usr/local/var/nessus/nessusd.pid`

Won't this halt any currently running scans?

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> Also you may want to set "log_whole_attack" to "no" in your .nessusrc to
> reduce the size of the logfile.

I'll do this when I can.  The auditing it provides has been useful a few 
times.

Thanks,
Beirne

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> 				-- Renaud

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