On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Jarry <[email protected]> wrote: > But is it actually necessary to do it? I mean everything between > postrotate-endscript is done after the log file has been rotated.
The log file has been moved, but Apache still holds open the file descriptor to the old log file--it will continue writing to that file, even under its new name. > So I do not understand why at that time apache must be reloaded. The reload causes Apache to close the file descriptor, and then open the file again. Since it *opens* the file by name, it will start with a fresh log file. > > Moreover, because of that apache-reloading apc was emptied so it > takes again some time till all php-scripts are in cache again... What you really want is for the logrotate script to ask Apache to flush its logs and reopen the file. I don't know offhand if Apache has a way to do that, short of a graceful restart. -- :wq
