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

[Andrew Morris]

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.

I see two options.

1) Stop and start the syslog-ng server.  This could lead to possibly 
missed logs during the ever so short outage.

2) Use syslog-ng to rotate your logs daily for you.  Then rotate the
logs from previous days.

Rechtorik, Keith wrote:

> I was testing things out at that point. Sorry for the confusion. Even when
> those lines are uncommented the logs still do not rotate. I guess I do not
> know how to kill the process. The syslog-ng pid never 'resets' itself when
> issuing the kill -HUP command.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu] 
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