-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kewl, thanks. I'd never noticed it before, but that makes perfect sense.
- -Tom - -----Original Message----- From: Gary Stainburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:54 AM To: Burke, Thomas G.; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Apache SIGHUP's - WHY? On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 3:25 pm, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > Hey gang, > > I've been noticing this in my logs off & on, & it seems odd to me. > Can anyone explain? > > -Tom > > [Wed Jan 22 04:02:03 2003] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to > restart > [Wed Jan 22 04:02:03 2003] [notice] Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) > (Red-Hat/Linux) configured -- resuming normal operations > [Wed Jan 22 04:02:03 2003] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: > sysvsem) Hi Tom, You'll probably find that you've got a logrotate job in your crontab. This is a nice tidy way of keeping your log files tidy. What this does is scrolls down your logfiles, e.g. .3 becomes .4, .2 to .3, .1 to .2 and your current logfile becomes .1. It then creates a new empty log. However, Apache has an open file handle that is still pointing to the old logfile. Sending a HUP to Apache tells it to do a gracefull restart which amongst other things makes it close/reopen the log file. HTH Gary - -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.3 iQA/AwUBPjAfxdPjBkUEZx5AEQLriwCfZLBM0I6dpq9c3BJT1m1n1FJwPF4AnjMq cRQCVIqAwJkk9pJ/9SCGO7dU =lFx+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
