logrotate configuration seems wrong

[Stuart Bishop]

On 15 September 2014 12:38, John Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:

> 7) "copytruncate" seems the wrong setting for interactive with rsyslog. I
> believe rsyslog is already aware that the file needs to be rotated, and thus

It is only aware if you sent it a HUP signal.

> it shouldn't be trying to write to the same file handle (and thus we don't
> need to truncate in place). I'm not 100% sure on the interactions here, but
> "copytruncate" seems to have an inherent likelyhood of dropping data (while
> you are copying, if any data gets written then you'll miss those last few
> bytes when you go to truncate, right?)

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Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop at canonical.com>