Bug 81497
| Summary: | don't restart daemons | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Neil Prockter <prockter> |
| Component: | logrotate | Assignee: | Elliot Lee <sopwith> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | srevivo |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-01-13 19:24:12 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Daemons have to be restarted in order for logging to continue to work - if apache does not get restarted, then there is no logging at all, because the information is being written to old, now-deleted logfiles. To prevent the situation you describe, don't leave the system with an invalid or untested configuration. |
Description of problem: logrotate restarts systems daemons, whilst this maybe fine for desktops for servers this can be disasterous Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: for worst result, change apache config, get it wrong, wait for logrotate to try to restart apache and apply changes then fail at 4am. no service for 5 hours! (hasn't happened to me yet thank goodness) Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: restarts systems daemons Preferred results: leave daemons alone Additional info: