Josip Rodin wrote: >> The server needs to be HUP'd for the log rotation to work. It >> previously did *not* re-open the log file on HUP. Now it does. > > No, but that's not what I'm saying. Previously it just kept writing the same > file *without* a HUP.
No... it wrote to the same *filename*, but a new *file*. i.e. it re-opened the log file on every log message. This is not the normal Unix daemon behavior. > It now no longer does, and it broke all our logrotate > setups... is this really necessary? Yes. It's how the server was intended to work, and it's how Unix daemons traditionally work. Fixing the logrotate scripts is just adding a "post rotate HUP" entry... Alan DeKok. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
