Ubuntu
rsyslog package

  1. Bug #940030
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 940030

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Matt Chesler (fu79) wrote :

I'm also seeing this issue on 14.04.3 LTS and 14.04.4 LTS. In my case, "/sbin/reload rsyslog" does not cause rsyslog to reopen the file handles and it instead continues writing to the rotated files, e.g. /var/log/syslog.1 until explicitly restarted.