Bug#1531: syslogd continues to write to old file after savelog

[Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

Andrew Howell writes ("Bug#1531: syslogd continues to write to old file after savelog"):
> I just looked into this a little more. It seems that the /var/run
> file for syslog has changed. /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd tries to
> do this.
>
> kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`
>
> but the file in /var/run is now this
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root            3 Sep 28 13:53 syslogd.pid

How about using something like
 start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --user root --exec /sbin/syslogd
?

Ian.