Re: [syslog-ng] Logs rotate and compress but still log to compressed file

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 14:13 -0600, Andrew Morris wrote:

I'm going to take a guess here (I've seen this before with other applications), but the HUP signal is just telling syslog-ng to reread it's config file.

If the config doesn't change, syslog-ng doesn't close the file descriptors (and most likely only closes them if it needs a different file name), and thus the file stays open.

Syslog-ng _always_ reopens files if it receives a HUP signal. -- Bazsi