04-14-2009
Without any more information on the services that write to those logs I'll take a wild guess and say that these still have an open handle on the files you're rotating. 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.
If there's no such thing, you'll probably have to restart the daemon.
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fsck-larch
FSCK-LARCH(1) General Commands Manual FSCK-LARCH(1)
NAME
fsck-larch - verify that a larch B-tree is internally consistent
SYNOPSIS
fsck-larch [--config=FILE] [--dump-config] [--dump-memory-profile=METHOD] [--dump-setting-names] [--fix] [--generate-manpage=TEMPLATE] [-h]
[--help] [--list-config-files] [--log=FILE] [--log-keep=N] [--log-level=LEVEL] [--log-max=SIZE] [--log-mode=MODE] [--no-default-configs]
[--output=FILE] [--trace=PATTERN] [--version] [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
fsck-larch reads an on-disk, committed B-tree created by the larch Python library, and verifies that it is internally consistent. It re-
ports any problems it finds, but does not currently fix them.
OPTIONS
--config=FILE
add FILE to config files
--dump-config
write out the entire current configuration
--dump-memory-profile=METHOD
make memory profiling dumps using METHOD, which is one of: none, simple, meliae, or heapy (default: simple)
--dump-setting-names
write out all names of settings and quit
--fix fix problems found?
--generate-manpage=TEMPLATE
fill in manual page TEMPLATE
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
--list-config-files
list all possible config files
--log=FILE
write log entries to FILE (default is to not write log files at all); use "syslog" to log to system log, or "none" to disable log-
ging
--log-keep=N
keep last N logs (10)
--log-level=LEVEL
log at LEVEL, one of debug, info, warning, error, critical, fatal (default: debug)
--log-max=SIZE
rotate logs larger than SIZE, zero for never (default: 0)
--log-mode=MODE
set permissions of new log files to MODE (octal; default 0600)
--no-default-configs
clear list of configuration files to read
--output=FILE
write output to FILE, instead of standard output
--trace=PATTERN
add PATTERN to trace patterns
--version
show program's version number and exit
SEE ALSO
Larch home page (http://liw.fi/larch/).
FSCK-LARCH(1)