2011/10/11 Lu, Victor <[email protected]>:
> Hi there,
>
> The following links discuss why kill -HUP is not supported by rsyslog, 
> version 5 and above.
>
>  http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v4compatibility.html
>
>  http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v5compatibility.html
>
> Here is the note from the website:  That code complexity reduction (and thus 
> performance improvement) needs the restart-type HUP code to be removed, so 
> these changes can (and will) only happen in version 5.
>
> However, restart of the rsyslog daemon will cause the syslog messages loss. 
> Has anybody thought about it? Is there a way to guarantee no system log 
> message loss like kill -HUP command provided?

You could use systemd for that:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/syslog

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