On Feb 10 14:53:33, [email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:12:53 +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
>
> > The -r option of newsyslog(8) removes the requirement
> > that newsyslog runs as root. Would it also make sense
> > to not try to send the SIGHUP to syslogd in that case?
>
> This seems wrong to me. You are disabling more than just sending
> a signal to SIGHUP, this will cause newsyslog to ignore *all* pid
> files.
Yes; it is wrong.
A better way to avoid trying to send the signal seems to be
to simply specify an empty command in the config file.
Jan
