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Today's Topics:
1. Re: [PATCH] innfeed does not reopen (rotated) log file
(Florian Schlichting)
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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:02:07 +0100
From: Florian Schlichting <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH] innfeed does not reopen (rotated) log file
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 11:22:59AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Julien ?LIE <[email protected]> writes:
> > The only issue I could think of is that the current sighup() function
> > reloads innfeed.conf. This file would therefore be reloaded everyday,
> > which might cause a problem if it has changed and the news administrator
> > still has not wanted to reload it. An automatic reload of innfeed.conf
> > would then have innfeed shut down (if for instance the syntax of the new
> > innfeed.conf file is wrong).
>
> Ah, hm, yes, that's true. That would be fine with me, but I could see how
> it might be surprising. We should probably only do that for 2.6.
>
> Does anyone have any concerns about this and think we should add a
> separate signal for log rotation?
It's the same as what other daemons (e.g. apache2) do after log rotation
/ on SIGHUP, so it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise IMHO.
Related to the original issue, yesterday I noticed that ninpaths and
controlchan have a deleted log/OLD/errlog on stdout and stderr. Perhaps
'ctlinnd flushlogs' as used in scanlogs should also cause flushing of
all channel / exploder feeds?
Florian
PS: insignificant typo:
--- a/doc/pod/newsfeeds.pod
+++ b/doc/pod/newsfeeds.pod
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ at its leisure. File feeds are most frequently used in
combination with
nntpsend(8).
A program feed (B<Tp>) spawns a given program for every article that the
-site receives. The I<paramter> field must be the command line to execute,
+site receives. The I<parameter> field must be the command line to execute,
and should contain one instance of C<%s>, which will be replaced by the
storage API token of the article (the actual article can be retrieved by
the program using sm(8)). The program will not receive anything on
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