[CentOS] logrotate.d - reload vs restart

Mon Dec 27 21:49:43 UTC 2010
Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net>

On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:31:29 -0500
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> */sbin/service* is working fine. It's just a shell script that finds
> and passes arguments to the init scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/.
> (/etc/init.d is a symlink to /etc/rc.d/init.d: don't be confused by
> that.)
> 
> If the init script supports reload, then service will successfully
> pass the argument to it. If it doesn't support reload, such as the
> "privoxy" script in this case does not, then you'll need  to use
> start, stop, or restart.

Ah... gotcha!  I've learned something today....

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