Re: [CentOS] Logrotate in CentOS 5.4 more brutal (to httpd at least) than in 5.3?

On Friday 15 January 2010, Christopher Thorjussen wrote:

I've just updated a few CentOS 5.3 servers to 5.4. One of them were a Apache Webserver. Doing a diff/check on the new ".rpmnew" config files that are made, I saw that the logrotate command for apache was changed. In 5.3 it did a reload, but in 5.4 it does a hard kill:

5.4 does a "kill -HUP" which is what "service httpd reload" does too. The -HUP signal causes http to re-read stuff rather than shutting down.

Still, I don't really understand why 5.4 doesn't use "service reload" which seems more "correct" (and the init.d script does a little bit of checking before the kill -HUP too).

*shrug* Peter

CentOS 5.3:

...

postrotate
    /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true

CentOS 5.4:

...

postrotate
    /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null ||

true endscript