Be clearer in the logrotate config text about postrotate purpose

It's not to get the daemon to re-read its configuration, but rather
to force it to reopen its log files.

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index f98a77587917099fa5104fd794d2422a3c52889b..a7bf76e0209d93db3b7f41b38dad6ec68e13ea5a 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -7944,11 +7944,10 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq
 }
          </example>
          This rotates all files under <file>/var/log/foo</file>, saves 12
-         compressed generations, and forces the daemon to reload its
-         configuration information after the log rotation.  It skips this
-         log rotation (via <tt>missingok</tt>) if no such log file is
-         present, which avoids errors if the package is removed but not
-         purged.
+         compressed generations, and tells the daemon to reopen its log
+         files after the log rotation.  It skips this log rotation
+         (via <tt>missingok</tt>) if no such log file is present, which
+         avoids errors if the package is removed but not purged.
        </p>
 
        <p>