No, with a config file change you need to do a full restart.
Rsyslog loads modules as part of it's config processing, and that part doesn't work well when trying to do a 'quick' restart.
In the past, Rsyslog would do a complete shutdown/restart on a HUP, but that would take long enough that in a high volume logging environment it would loose a significant amount of logs in the process, so it was changed so that a HUP only closes outputs instead. For a couple major releases this was an optional behavior, then it was changed to be the default behavior.
David Lang On Thu, 31 Oct 2013, Fred Maillou wrote:
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:41:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Maillou <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [rsyslog] Using HUP for config file changes Hi ! Is it possible to send a HUP once the config file is modified to have a config file reload ? Thanks ! Fred. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
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