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2018 Jan 19
2
Strange thing on log rotation front
Hi all!
I've decided to rotate the dovecot logs automatically on my freebsd
10.4 server using the system's newsyslog feature. I started with
logfile.info putting the line
/var/log/dovecot/logfile.info 600 31 * @T16 ZCU /var/run/dovecot/master.pid 30
which should send a SIGUSER to the master process, which it seems to
do for I see in the log file:
master:
2018 Jan 20
0
Strange thing on log rotation front
...le:
>
> master: Warning: Sent SIGKILL to 1 log processes
> master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=69871 uid=0 code=kill)
>
> though the log process doesn't die.
>
> What did I do wrong?
Remove "U" from the flags:
U indicates that the file specified by path_to_pid_cmd_file will
contain the ID for a process group instead of a process.
And sometimes "B" (don't insert info message about log rotation) is useful too.
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