Enable on-demand rotation.

[nssm.git] / README.txt

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@@ -315,7 +315,17 @@ They will be rotated regardless of whether NSSM would otherwise have appended
 or replaced them.\r
 \r
 NSSM can also rotate files which hit the configured size threshold while the\r
-service is running.  To enable this feature, set AppRotateOnline to a non-zero\r
+service is running.  Additionally, you can trigger an on-demand rotation by\r
+running the command\r
+\r
+    nssm rotate <servicename>\r
+\r
+On-demand rotations will happen after the next line of data is read from\r
+the managed application, regardless of the value of AppRotateBytes. Be aware\r
+that if the application is not particularly verbose the rotation may not\r
+happen for some time.\r
+\r
+To enable online and on-demand rotation, set AppRotateOnline to a non-zero\r
 value.\r
 \r
 Note that online rotation requires NSSM to intercept the application's I/O\r