Am 06.12.2013 11:17, schrieb Chris Butler: > Package: rsyslog > Version: 5.8.11-3 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Following a recent upgrade from squeeze to wheezy (although this would be > trigged by any package update it seems), we noticed that rsyslog was not > logging to the correct log file after log rotation - it was still logging to > "syslog.1" etc. > > I discovered that this was caused by the init script not being able to find > the > correct pid to signal. Although the pid file was correct, it was trying to > match the exact executable file, which had been deleted: > > chrisb@massmail:~$ sudo ls /proc/427/exe -l > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 6 01:33 /proc/427/exe -> > (deleted)/usr/sbin/rsyslogd > chrisb@massmail:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart > [ ok ] Stopping enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd already stopped. > [....] Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd Already running. If you want to > run multiple instances, you need to specify different pid files (use -i > option) > [ ok ady started. > > It seems this was related to the following change in 5.8.8-1: > > * debian/rsyslog.init > - Use --exec instead of --name for start-stop-daemon. This is more > reliable and works better on GNU/Hurd. (Closes: #652575) > > This also breaks the postinst script which tries to restart the daemon on > upgrade. This could potentially cause an important upgrade not to be applied > to > the running daemon.
You should talk to the dpkg maintainers then (which provide start-stop-daemon). They suggested to use --exec instead of --name. I'm a bit tired to switch that back and forth due to insufficiences in our init systems and kludges like s-s-d. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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