+1 for this patch.
"Antoine Beaupré" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>After noticing a 80MB babeld logfile on my router, I figured I would
>implement log rotation for it. Unfortunately, it turns out that babeld
>exits when it receives SIGHUP, the default signal delivered by log
>rotation software (at least newsyslog in FreeBSD and logrotate in
>Debian).
>
>It is a very old tradition in UNIX daemons to use the SIGHUP signal for
>exactly that reason: reload your config files and reopen your logs!
>
>This seems to be what SIGUSR2 is doing to babel, and while I can adapt
>my configuration to do that, it seems more appropriate for Babel to
>follow usual standards.
>
>here's a patch.
>
>
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>A.
>
>PS: Ideally, there would also be a routine to reload the configuration,
>but I couldn't find any, so this is not yet implemented.
>
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