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# 8  
Old 04-14-2009
Thankyou both very much Smilie
# 9  
Old 04-14-2009
Hi i am looking into fuser. It seems to be missing from my system somehow. Though this page suggests that it comes with MAC OS X
Mac OS X Manual Page For fuser(1)

But this is what i get in the console:
Code:
WebServer:/ timgolding$ man fuser
No manual entry for fuser
WebServer:/ timgolding$ fuser
-bash: fuser: command not found
WebServer:/ timgolding$ locate fuser
WebServer:/ timgolding$ locate ldconfig

# 10  
Old 04-14-2009
see if you have 'man lsof'
# 11  
Old 04-14-2009
Ah yes i do thanks I'll look into that.
# 12  
Old 04-14-2009
Hi is this good enough?

Code:
WebServer:/ timgolding$ sudo lsof /var/log/asl.log
Password:
COMMAND PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF     NODE NAME
syslogd  39 root    4w  VREG   14,4   189853 11006823 /private/var/log/asl.log
WebServer:/ timgolding$

# 13  
Old 04-14-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by timgolding
Hi is this good enough?

Code:
WebServer:/ timgolding$ sudo lsof /var/log/asl.log
Password:
COMMAND PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF     NODE NAME
syslogd  39 root    4w  VREG   14,4   189853 11006823 /private/var/log/asl.log
WebServer:/ timgolding$

looks good enough to me - you have a PID and a command locking the file (syslogd).
Now you need to parse this for whatever you need to do.
# 14  
Old 04-14-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Now you need to parse this for whatever you need to do.
Not too sure what that is at the moment? Learn how to restart it with a script? Or as Pludi says:

Quote:
Originally Posted by pludi
Usually there's a mechanism like in the second-to-last line, sending a signal (usually SIGHUP or SIGUSR1) to the process, telling it to re-read the configuration and/or recreating the log files.
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