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you can send a <literal>SIGHUP</literal> signal to the

<application>syslog</> daemon whenever you want to force it to

start writing a new log file. If you want to automate log

rotation, the <application>rotatelogs</application> program can be

rotation, the <application>logrotate</application> program can be

configured to work with log files from

<application>syslog</application>.

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