Bug 125241

Summary:	www-servers/lighttpd in logrotate use kill -hup to cycle logfiles insetad of doing restart
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	david somers <dsomers>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Aaron Walker (RETIRED) <ka0ttic>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	rockoo
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description david somers 2006-03-06 07:23:05 UTC

lighttpd will respond to kill -hup and reload its config (and reopen its log files). Therefore, please add a reload option into init.d/lighttpd (and also tweak logrotate.d/lighttpd to call reload instead of restart).

BTW, when doing a restart/reload on lighttpd, it might be a good idea to also do pkill -u lighttpd to ensure that any runaway fastcgi jobs, etc., are also zapped immediately :-)

Comment 1 david somers 2006-03-06 10:10:54 UTC

Argh. Sorry. kill -hup just recycles lighty's log files, so it can be used by logrotate instead of doing a restart.

Comment 2 david somers 2006-03-06 10:12:42 UTC

Argh. Sorry. kill -hup just recycles lighty's log files, so it can be used by logrotate instead of doing a restart.

Comment 3 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-30 12:55:28 UTC

in cvs - thanks!