> This also fails, the following works:
>
> systemctl reload lighttpd.service > /dev/null 2>&1;
That will start lighttpd if it is not running, which might not be
desirable. I think that a different solution is warranted.
/etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd is doing the correct thing, calling
/etc/init.d/lighttpd reopen-logs
However, perhaps /etc/init.d/lighttpd should avoid sending a signal to
lighttpd to reopen logs if lighttpd is not running.
/etc/init.d/lighttpd might check using pidofproc, even though
running start-stop-daemon --oknodo --quiet should have exited 0
if nothing was running.
Does the following work for you?
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ case "$1" in
fi
;;
reopen-logs)
+ pidofproc -p "$PIDFILE" "$DAEMON" >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0
log_daemon_msg "Reopening $DESC logs" $NAME
if start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --oknodo --quiet \
--pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
