Jan de Groot wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 12:07 +0100, RedShift wrote:
>> Hello all
>>
>> I just uncovered some secret plot against me by the government. It 
>> appears after logrotate runs every week, instead of logging continuing 
>> with the newly logfiles, it continues to log to the rotated files!
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> we have auth.log
>> after logrotate this becomes auth.log.1
>> a new empty file auth.log is created
>> logging continues on auth.log
>>
>> What's happening?
>> we have auth.log
>> after logrotate this becomes auth.log.1
>> a new empty file auth.log is created
>> logging continues on auth.log.1
>> auth.log remains empty.
>>
>> syslog-ng and logrotate configuration haven't been altered from the default.
>>
>>
>> Any ideas on how to resolve this?
> 
> Yes, syslog-ng should get kicked after rotation. Without a kill -HUP it
> will keep the filedescriptors opened to the rotated file.
> 

But that's set up in
/etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng

all my other arch machines do it correctly, this one doesn't.

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