Logfile rotation

[Camron W. Fox]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nessus at list.nessus.org
> [mailto:owner-nessus at list.nessus.org]On Behalf Of Beirne Konarski
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:26
> To: Renaud Deraison; nessus at list.nessus.org
> Subject: Re: Logfile rotation
>
>
> 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 :
> >
> > 	kill -1 `cat /usr/local/var/nessus/nessusd.pid`
>
> Won't this halt any currently running scans?
>
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
Beirne,

	What OS are you running the server on?



Best Regards,
Camron

Camron W. Fox
Hilo Office
High Performance Computing Group
Fujitsu America, INC.
E-mail:		cwfox at fujitsu.com