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Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/omfile.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/rsyslogd.8 | 8 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/omfile.c b/tools/omfile.c index 06875fe4..8144386f 100644 --- a/tools/omfile.c +++ b/tools/omfile.c @@ -296,6 +296,8 @@ int resolveFileSizeLimit(instanceData *pData) execProg(pCmd, 1, pParams); + free(pCmd); + pData->fd = open((char*) pData->f_fname, O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY, pData->fCreateMode); diff --git a/tools/rsyslogd.8 b/tools/rsyslogd.8 index 05905412..86c4bf66 100644 --- a/tools/rsyslogd.8 +++ b/tools/rsyslogd.8 @@ -254,6 +254,14 @@ configuration file (default is will be reread and the .BR rsyslog (3) facility is started again. +Note that this means a full rsyslogd restart is done. This has, among others, +the consequence that TCP and other connections are torn down. Also, if any +queues are not running in disk assisted mode or are not set to persist data +on shutdown, queue data is lost. HUPing rsyslogd is an extremely expensive +operation and should only be done when actually necessary. Actually, it is +a rsyslgod stop immediately followed by a restart. Future versions will probably +include a special handling which only closes files, but will not cause any +of the other effects. .TP .B TERM ", " INT ", " QUIT .B Rsyslogd |