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?