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Rotates a file while keeping the last N lines from the existing log in the new log file.

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TailingLogRotator
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Allows rotation of a log file while keeping its last NNN lines in the new log
file.

Arguments:
  log_file_path       full path to the log file to rotate

  lines_to_preserve   how many lines from the existing log file to leave in the
                      newly rotated file

Options:
  :hup                the name of the program to send a "killall -HUP" to after
                      rotation

Example
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TailingLogRotator.rotate('/var/log/maillog', 2_000_000, :hup => 'syslogd')


Copyright (c) 2011 [Jeff Emminger], released under the MIT license