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

[Balazs Scheidler]

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.

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Bazsi