[syslog-ng]restarting syslog-ng

[Balazs Scheidler]

> 
> When I restart syslog-ng, should I be restarting all other
> applications that write to the log files?
> 
> I have noticed that when I restart syslog-ng
> (/etc/init.d/syslog restart - redhat 7) I will lose certain messages
> to my maillog from sendmail.  If I don't restart my cron daemon,
> it no longer has any new messages in its log file (/var/log/cron).
> This is true of other apps as well.
> 
> The stopping/restarting of syslog-ng is handled by redhat's "daemon
> syslog-ng" and "killproc syslog-ng" scripts within /etc/init.d/syslog.

Don't restart it, use kill -HUP to reinitialize it. This way it doesn't drop
opened connections -> messages will not be lost.

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