[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#628606: Please update calls to rsyslog reload

[Michael Biebl]

Package: sympa
Version: 6.1.1~dfsg-2
Severity: normal

Hi!

I've just uploaded rsyslog with the following change:

rsyslog (5.8.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  The way rsyslog processes SIGHUP has changed. It no longer does a reload
  of its configuration, but simply closes all open files, which is a much more
  lightweight operation.
  To apply a changed configuration, rsyslogd needs to be restarted now.
  As a consequence, the reload action has been dropped from the init script.

  A new action called "rotate" was added to the init script, which signals
  rsyslogd to close all open files. This new action is used in the rsyslog
  logrotate configuration file.

  For more information, see:
  http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v4compatibility.html
  http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v5compatibility.html

 -- Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>  Mon, 30 May 2011 18:26:51 +0200


sympa uses "invoke-rc.d rsyslog reload" in its logrotation configuration
file. This means, that will no longer work, as the reload operation is gone.
Either use "invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate"
or something like "kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/rsyslogd.pid)"
in the postrotate script.


Cheers,
Michael

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