Public bug reported: Logrotate scrpit supplied by puppetmaster package tries to send signal after rotating logs. Unfortunately it matches against process name that doesn't exists. As a result puppet master process doesn't release log file descriptor that grows infinitely.
There is: pkill -USR2 -u puppet -f puppetmasterd || true While it should be: pkill -USR2 -u puppet -f "puppet master" || true Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 puppetmaster: Installed: 3.4.3-1 Candidate: 3.4.3-1 Version table: *** 3.4.3-1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ** Affects: puppetmaster (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1410383 Title: wrong process name match in logrotate script To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppetmaster/+bug/1410383/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs