Sorry, I meant syslog, as I also wrote in the first post.
Den onsdag 13 december 2017 kl. 15:36:53 UTC+1 skrev Andrew Milner:
>
> My logrotate stops and starts syslog at postrotate, it does not restart
> logrotate.
>
> /var/log/weewx.log {
> weekly
> missingok
> rotate 52
> compress
> delaycompress
> notifempty
> # debian uses root:adm
> # create 644 root adm
> # ubuntu uses syslog:adm
> # create 644 syslog adm
> sharedscripts
> postrotate
> # standard way of invoking rc scripts
> /etc/init.d/rsyslog stop
> /etc/init.d/rsyslog start
>
>
> On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 15:56:42 UTC+2, Daniel Jönsson wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>
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