Re: HUP reqired after rotating mail.log on postfix?

Top Page
Attachments:
Message as email
+ (text/plain)
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Kevin Brown
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: HUP reqired after rotating mail.log on postfix?
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?


The HUP tells postfix to reload its config file and will help it deal with the
change in the presence of the mail.log file since it is being moved during the
logrotate cron job and postfix may not normally catch that and create a new one
on its own...
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list -
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss