On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:03:20 -0500
chas williams - CONTRACTOR <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:34:57 -0500
> Michael Meffie <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > The bosserver now supports an option to save the pid of the server
> > processes to a file. This should make it easy for sites to send the
> > signal to reopen the log file and get a new file handle after the server
> > log file was renamed by the external log rotation program.
> 
> You could actually make bosserver forward the 'reopen the logs' signal
> to the various processes.  logrotate certainly supports this for httpd
> -- it has at least two log files that need rotated on the same signal.

That is a interesting idea. The bosserver pid is also written to a file
when -pidfiles is given, so available to the external logrotate.

> That would almost be elegant.

Let's not get carried away!


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Michael Meffie <[email protected]>
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