[Tfug] Is HUP necessary after having logroate rotate mail.log?

Choprboy choprboy at dakotacom.net
Wed Jul 28 17:24:36 MST 2004


On Wednesday 28 July 2004 16:16, elemint at theriver.com wrote:
> I have an amavisd-new, spamassassin, postfix configuration and after 
> logroate rotates mail.log is  sending an HUP singnal to postfix necessary?
> is the " killall -HUP postfix" line necessary?
> 
Hmmm... I don;t know exactly. Doesn't seem to be a problem at all on my 
systems. My logrotate config rotates messages, secure, maillog, spooler, 
boot.log, and cron all at the same time. It only does a HUP on the syslog 
process.

Adrian


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