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

[Nick Lopez]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 04:16:45PM -0700, 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?
  Yes, to tell postfix to stop writing to the old file and open the new one.
 
  - Nick Lopez
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