Creation Of Log Rotation For The BRM Webservice.log File Stops Any Logging To That File (Doc ID 2426190.1)

Last updated on MARCH 12, 2019

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Goal

The user is trying to configure logrotate for BRM WebService at Linux OS level and trigger it by cron job, a new logrotate configuration file is created in /etc/logrotate.d called webservice.
When creating log rotation for BRM webservice, the log file stops being updated.

Here is the logrotate configuration for BRM webservice;
/u01/app/brm/7.5/var/brm/webservice.log {
        missingok
        notifempty
        daily
        rotate 1
        nocompress
        create 644 processbrmapp processbrmapp
        postrotate
                day=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
                /bin/mv /u01/app/brm/7.5/var/brm/webservice.log.1 /u01/app/brmlog/prod/wb1/soap_endpoint/webservice.log_$day
        endscript
}

The file permission is -rw-r--r--

When the file is rotated daily (i.e. set back to zero size), the application stops updating to it, but permissions on the file do not change.
This is causing issues when logging production BRM services.

Is there any kind of daemon reload or -HUP signal required to have logging restored properly for BRM after rotation?
Does BRM, for any reason, require a special configuration in logrotate in order for logging to continue after rotation?

Solution

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