Paul Howarth wrote:
/etc/logrotate.d/syslog specifies a postrotate action for:
/var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron
of:
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
Does yours have this?
Does /var/run/syslogd.pid have the right process ID for syslog?
I checked already and yes syslogd.pid does have the right process ID and the logrotate.d does have the HUP correctly. I think it is specific to the compress being on and/or the rotate 999 being set.
Peter