> bazsi> Here is a good example for a logrotate config file
> bazsi> (for more information see logrotate(8)):
>
> bazsi> /var/log/apache/* {
> bazsi> [...]
> bazsi> kill -HUP `cat /var/run/apache.pid`
> bazsi> endscript
> bazsi> }
>
> bazsi> Which rotates all files under `/var/log/apache', saves
> bazsi> 12 compressed generations, and sends a HUP signal at
> bazsi> the end of rotation.
>
> Shouldn't that use `/etc/init.d/apache reload' instead? Most things,
> as far as I know, will work that way, sed -e 's/apache/$DAEMON/'. I
> think it would be good to display the /etc/init.d/* method in this
> policy item, as a way of documenting that feature of the sysvinit
> scripts, which provide a standard interface to reloading any daemon.
hmmm... I agree with you here. That example was intended to show the usage
of logrotate, not meant to show the way of restarting a daemon.
So the line "kill -HUP `cat /var/run/apache.pid`" should read:
/etc/init.d/apache restart
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