David Cary Hart wrote: > Typically, the post rotate script looks like: > /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` \ > 2> /dev/null || true > > I get "cat /var/run/httpd.pid" to identify the process. In this case, > what restarts httpd? It does not get stopped. What the kill command is doing is sending httpd the -HUP signal. This causes it to close and re-open the log files, so it uses the new file, instead of the old file that was processed by logrotate. The -HUP signal is commonly used to tell a daemon to re-read its config file, or to re-open its log files. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
