[syslog-ng] Reloading configuration

[Anselmo Lacerda Silveira de Melo]

Em Sex, 2006-11-24 às 13:33 +0100, Wolfram Schlich escreveu:
> Anselmo,
> 
> *please* fix your MUA, its quote function is broken and it sends HTML mails.
> 
Sorry, I had problems with evolution and the last e-mail was sent using
the webmail interface.


> * Anselmo Lacerda S. de Melo <Anselmo.Melo at asga.com.br> [2006-11-24 13:14]:
> > * Wolfram Schlich
> > > * Anselmo Lacerda Silveira de Melo <anselmo.melo at asga.com.br> [2006-11-24 13:02]:
> > > > Just a question: Can syslog-ng reload its configuration file (changed)
> > > > without being restarted? I couldn't find anything related in the
> > > > documentation.
> > >
> > > kill -HUP $(< /var/run/syslog-ng.pid)
> >
> > Hi Wolfram,
> > Thank you for answering, but what I asked was about a function (from
> > syslog-ng) that does it automaticaly (withou kill, /etc/init.d/syslog
> > restart, etc).
> 
> Why should it reload it automactially?!

I didn't say it should. It was just a question! 

> I don't think automatically reloading changed configuration is a smart
> idea. You might have broken something when editing syslog-ng.conf.
> 
> The standard procedure should be:
> 1. edit and save syslog-ng.conf
> 2. check for syntax errors with "syslog-ng -s"
> 3. reload syslog-ng (kill -HUP) to make it re-initialize its config.
> 
> The Gentoo init script for syslog-ng for example does "syslog-ng -s"
> automatically before (re)starting syslog-ng. It also supports
> a "reload" option that does the "kill -HUP" stuff.

I know the procedure, the point was the fact that someone here in my job
asked me to check this to decide how it will be done in our project. Now
it's clear that the known procedure is the way we'll use.

thank you.

> Regards

Anselmo