[syslog-ng]SIGHUP not working (Plz Help)

[Shahid Shafi]

Thanks for your reply. Thats exactly what I found last night. I
created a symlink to syslog-ng.pid and everything is working fine.

Again thanks and syslg-ng rocks!

Shahid


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:03:18 +0200, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 03:16, Shahid Shafi wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I am in slight trouble. I installed syslog-ng, configured my stuff and
> > everything is working fine. I am using newsyslog to rotate logs file
> > every 2 MB. newsyslog is invoked via cron and send HUP to the
> > syslog-ng after rotating. File is rotated and compressed but the new
> > file never got any log data again. I then had to restart the syslog-ng
> > process and everyhting works normally after that. Can somebody help
> > here?
> 
> are you sure that newsyslog sends HUP to the correct syslog daemon? IIRC
> there were problems with newsyslog scripts that they sent the HUP to the
> PID found in /var/run/syslogd.pid which is not where syslog-ng stores
> its pid.
> --
> Bazsi
> 
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