[Gllug] logrotate

Ian Scott mriscott at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Sep 4 11:26:50 UTC 2007


Steve Coast wrote:
> So I have a ubuntu box with apache2. logrotate is installed and  =

> postrotate it does /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
>
> Which would be fine if I didn't have SSL certificates which need a  =

> passphrase typed in.
>
> Any advice appreciated :-)
>

I once worked somewhere with this problem where they had a script along
the lines of

echo $secretPassword | /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Not sure it does much for security though ... if the password's in a script,
I'm not sure there's much point in having it ...


Just my 1.9999p

yane
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