From: Russ Allbery Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:58:40 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Be clearer in the logrotate config text about postrotate purpose X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=62fa001d93f2e35923855f04cb3a9186e37791c8;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git 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 f98a775..a7bf76e 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -7944,11 +7944,10 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq } This rotates all files under /var/log/foo, saves 12 - compressed generations, and forces the daemon to reload its - configuration information after the log rotation. It skips this - log rotation (via missingok) 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 missingok) if no such log file is present, which + avoids errors if the package is removed but not purged.