Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro> writes:

> In the section on log files[1], the example uses start-stop-daemon:

> postrotate
>     start-stop-daemon -K -p /var/run/foo.pid -s HUP -x /usr/sbin/foo -q
> endscript

> while elsewhere in the policy manual it is suggested to use invoke-rc.d

> Inspecting my own system, I noticed most logrotate scripts use
> invoke-rc.d, not start-stop-daemon

There was a long discussion about this a while back, during which we
decided not to change this because of bad interations with policy-rc.d, I
think?  I'm not sure what the bug number was, though.

I agree that the behavior you're describing seems broken.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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