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:
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.