Thanks in advance to the responder

I run a perl script that "tail -f /var/log/syslog" looking for iptables enteries and puts them into the snort mysql db.

I run it from /etc/init.d as follows:
#!/bin/sh
# Log Iptables Data to Snort Mysql Log For Acid Viewing

case "$1" in
'start')
echo "Starting Logsnorter"
logsnorter-0.2 -L 8 -T /var/log/syslog &
echo "Logsnorter Started"
;;
'stop')
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }"
;;
esac
exit 0

Everthing works fine until logrotate comes along and kills the script at about 6am

I need to know how to restart the perl script from cron - more specifically, how to find the pid of the script and kill it from inside a shell script. Anybody have an example shell script they could throuw up? Thanks

Brian Toovey

To kill it you might try

killall -15 $0
or
killall -9 $0

To find the pid try this.
pidof $0