Re: Bug#334824: logrotate: Postrotate documentation - Why restart?
Kai Hendry wrote:
>I discovered a HUP signal causes Apache just to reload the configs.
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And crash, in certain interesting and curious corner cases.
>Though in Debian Unstable's /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 it actually does a
>*restart* not a kill -HUP.
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>Which in /etc/init.d/apache2 issues a restart which actually stops the
>server.
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>Is that a bug?
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Yes, but it's one I won't fix until I'm sure that doing a reload won't
crash anymore. the logrotate script is a conffile, which means we won't
touch it on upgrade without asking first, so feel free to change your
local copy to do whatever works for you.
... Adam
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