I understand. I am only familiar with Debian/Ubuntu so I can not help you with that. And to me it seemed strange. Some times you restart/reload the service/demaon, but I have never seen that a logrotate is restarting logrotate...
Den onsdag 13 december 2017 kl. 12:42:38 UTC+1 skrev mwall: > > On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 4:36:01 AM UTC-5, Daniel Jönsson wrote: >> >> In this logrotate example you are restarting rsyslog postrotate!! Why? >> > > restarting rsyslog is probably not necessary for the most recent operating > systems. > > i found that on some systems, logrotate did not manage open file handles > properly. when logrotate rotated the weewx log file, (r)syslog would > continue to write to the log that had been rotated. > > do you know of a way to ensure proper logrotate behavior that works on all > operating systems and all operating system versions? > > m > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.