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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-10-16 14:30:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-10-16 14:30:56 +0200 |
| commit | 11e2d2c3bede67cc09580269fcc45d2f3e604eba (patch) | |
| tree | 735d47d0aab25f220ca04bdb713c441093681a7b | |
| parent | 83360a6841ce7b3d28d26fde98d9ef4f03b1e229 (diff) | |
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clarified cost and effect of SIGHUPv3.19.12
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diff --git a/tools/rsyslogd.8 b/tools/rsyslogd.8 index 91f2016e..fd7a5377 100644 --- a/tools/rsyslogd.8 +++ b/tools/rsyslogd.8 @@ -223,6 +223,14 @@ configuration file (default is will be reread and the .BR rsyslog (3) facility is started again. +Note that this means a full rsyslogd restart is done. This has, among others, +the consequence that TCP and other connections are torn down. Also, if any +queues are not running in disk assisted mode or are not set to persist data +on shutdown, queue data is lost. HUPing rsyslogd is an extremely expensive +operation and should only be done when actually necessary. Actually, it is +a rsyslgod stop immediately followed by a restart. Future versions will probably +include a special handling which only closes files, but will not cause any +of the other effects. .TP .B TERM ", " INT ", " QUIT .B Rsyslogd |