From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-31 i686) Description of problem: /etc/init.d/syslog help pretends that it does not support reload. In fact reload is implemented as a restart in /etc/init.d/syslog. That is bad. Please implement reload as sending SIG_HUP to the syslogd. See man syslogd for details. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sysklogd-1.4.1-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: /etc/init.d/syslog reload Actual Results: The same as doing /etc/init.d/syslog restart Additional info:
Very sorry for the long delay in responding to this bug. Somehow this bug slipped through the cracks - I just discovered it (I've recently taken over maintenance of the syslogd package). I agree - the next version of syslogd (1.4.1-31+) will have an initscript that supports the "reload" command by sending a SIGHUP to syslogd.
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