looks as though centos once had a problem ....
https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=32715
guess the stop and start may not be necessary nowadays - but they should
not cause any harm either
On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 16:58:01 UTC+2, Daniel Jönsson wrote:
> Sorry, I meant syslog, as I also wrote in the first post.
>
>
> Den onsdag 13 december 2017 kl. 15:36:53 UTC+1 skrev Andrew Milner:
>>
>> My logrotate stops and starts syslog at postrotate, it does not restart
>> logrotate.
>>
>> /var/log/weewx.log {
>> weekly
>> missingok
>> rotate 52
>> compress
>> delaycompress
>> notifempty
>> # debian uses root:adm
>> # create 644 root adm
>> # ubuntu uses syslog:adm
>> # create 644 syslog adm
>> sharedscripts
>> postrotate
>> # standard way of invoking rc scripts
>> /etc/init.d/rsyslog stop
>> /etc/init.d/rsyslog start
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 15:56:42 UTC+2, Daniel Jönsson wrote:
>>
>>> I understand. I am only familiar with Debian/Ubuntu so I can not help
>>> you with that.
>>> And to me it seemed strange. Some times you restart/reload the
>>> service/demaon, but I have never seen that a logrotate is restarting
>>> logrotate...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Den onsdag 13 december 2017 kl. 12:42:38 UTC+1 skrev mwall:
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 4:36:01 AM UTC-5, Daniel Jönsson
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> In this logrotate example you are restarting rsyslog postrotate!! Why?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> restarting rsyslog is probably not necessary for the most recent
>>>> operating systems.
>>>>
>>>> i found that on some systems, logrotate did not manage open file
>>>> handles properly. when logrotate rotated the weewx log file, (r)syslog
>>>> would continue to write to the log that had been rotated.
>>>>
>>>> do you know of a way to ensure proper logrotate behavior that works on
>>>> all operating systems and all operating system versions?
>>>>
>>>> m
>>>>
>>>
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