On Sat, 01 Sep 2018 11:58:25 +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > When starting up, > .Nm > reads its configuration file, > .Xr syslogd.conf 5 , > and opens the configured logfiles and TCP and TLS connections. > The configured logfiles already have to exist > with the correct permissions. > When receiving a > .Dv SIGHUP > signal, it closes all open logfiles and TCP and TLS connections > and re-runs this initialization sequence. > Sending this signal is required both after editing the configuration > file and after log rotation.
That does seem better to me. I agree that the sentence about the pid file should be removed as well. - todd
