Bug#445203: debian-policy: 10.8. Log files: /etc/logrotate.d/<package> preferred
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> I'm not nearly so certain that it's not a bug to use invoke-rc.d here.
> The desired semantics of a logrotate script are "after rotating the log,
> *iff the daemon is running*, reload it to trigger it to reopen the
> logfile; otherwise do nothing". *Neither* the existing example, nor
> invoke-rc.d, gives these semantics; and switching to invoke-rc.d only
> makes the wrongness of logrotate's behavior less difficult to
> understand.
What if I change the logrotate example to:
invoke-rc.d foo reload > /dev/null
That appears to be the common practice right now, and that should avoid
that problem.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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