Re: Bug#334824: logrotate: Postrotate documentation - Why restart?

[Kai Hendry <hendry@iki.fi>]

On 2005-10-21T00:49+0100 Paul Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:04:24PM +1000, Kai Hendry wrote:
> > I don't understand why there is a need to restart the server in a 
> > postrotate using apache2 as an example.
> > Could you or rather docs explain this better? :)
> > I noticed this on RH machine for example:
> >     postrotate
> >         /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
> You'll have to ask the apache maintainer about this. The individual 
> /etc/logrotate.d/ scripts are provided with the package requesting the 
> rotation.

I posted to a RH list and I got quite a good response:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2005-October/msg00246.html

I discovered a HUP signal causes Apache just to reload the configs.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2005-October/msg00253.html

Though in Debian Unstable's /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 it actually does a
*restart* not a kill -HUP.

Which in /etc/init.d/apache2 issues a restart which actually stops the
server. 

Is that a bug?