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

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