init-script fails to restart

[Thomas]

when I want to restart rsyslog it fails:

root@mail1:~# service rsyslog restart
stop: Unknown instance:
rsyslog start/running

It occurs many times. Possible it depend on logrotate, because every day logging stops (all logfiles are empty), but rsyslog is still running.

The only thing I can do is to kill rsyslogd and start it again with the service command.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-34.53-generic 3.2.33
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Dec 3 10:24:13 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120817.3)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: rsyslog
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Thomas (t.c)]

on hint: I am running postfix with heavy load

Postfix installer creates the follow file:

/etc/rsyslog.d/postfix.conf

$AddUnixListenSocket /var/spool/postfix/dev/log

[Thomas (t.c)]

and reload fails every time:

root@mail1:~# LANG=C service rsyslog restart
rsyslog stop/waiting
rsyslog start/running

root@mail1:~# LANG=C service rsyslog reload
reload: Not running

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Thomas (t.c)]

Any Update??? This Bug is really critical, because logrotate trigger its every day, and the messages get logget in to filename.1 instead to logfile.