Correct format for respawning retroclient process in newsyslog.conf?

[Maser]

For the techies out there (as I'm not getting this...)

 

The file /var/log/retroclient.log is hard-coded to recycle itself when it hits about 2M in size.

 

If you turn on advanced logging ("retroclient -log 9") for the client which I'm doing to try to reproduce some bug, the 2M limit is not large enough to capture my traffic.

 

 

So I thought I could put /var/log/retroclient.log into /etc/newsyslog.conf and save backups of the client.

 

Well, this works, but not enough to respawn the process (apparently) to continue the logging.

 

 

This is the line I added to /etc/newsyslog.conf:

 

 

/var/log/retroclient.log 644 7 1000 * J

 

 

Which backups the log file at 1M and creates a new one, but the new log file is *not* written to at that point for subsequent backups.

 

 

On my server, I had to do something similar for "clamav" to respawn the process when archiving the log:

 

/var/log/clamav.log _amavisd:wheel 640 5 1000 * J /var/amavis/clamd.pid 1

 

 

But I can't figure out what would be the equivalent command for the retroclient app.

 

 

Any thoughts/suggestions?

 

Thanks!