No, that's not implemented. We could do this for files with fixed names (but 
there are feature request with a much higher priority in the queue), but it 
simply is impossible for files with dynamic names.

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Sawhill
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 11:16 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [rsyslog] Config directive to force immediate recreation of
> output files on HUP?
> 
> I agree this is silly, but I just want to check if there is something
> like this already -- I didn't find anything in the documentation, so I
> doubt it.
> 
> If you need more detail... I haven't used rsyslog 6 or 7, but as of
> version 5, with $HUPIsRestart finally gone:
> 
> If you delete/mv some of rsyslog's output files and then hit rsyslogd
> with a HUP, it doesn't recreate the files until it actually has a
> message to write to them. I like this, and without even looking at the
> code it makes sense to me. However, there are those that cling to their
> custom scripts and would like rsyslogd to immediately create 0-byte
> files (for any missing output files) after a SIGHUP.
> 
> In any scenario I can imagine, using touch to manually create 0-byte
> files should suffice, but still ... thought I'd ask.
> 
> Cheers.
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