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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2009-07-15 11:17:14 +0200
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2009-07-15 11:17:14 +0200
commitff6f2b1cc0d0ce5b9e3fa4e28407be20d26f2004 (patch)
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Merge branch 'v4-beta' into v4-devel
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/tools/rsyslogd.8 b/tools/rsyslogd.8
index 7d4b5e03..6ac30e46 100644
--- a/tools/rsyslogd.8
+++ b/tools/rsyslogd.8
@@ -248,20 +248,17 @@ kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/rsyslogd.pid)
.B HUP
This lets
.B rsyslogd
-perform a re-initialization. All open files are closed, the
-configuration file (default is
-.IR /etc/rsyslog.conf ")"
-will be reread and the
-.BR rsyslog (3)
-facility is started again.
+perform close all open files.
+Also, in v3 a full restart will be done in order to read changed configuration files.
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.
+a rsyslgod stop immediately followed by a restart. Future versions will remove
+this restart functionality of HUP (it will go away in v5). So it is advised to use
+HUP only for closing files, and a "real restart" (e.g. /etc/rc.d/rsyslogd restart)
+to activate configuration changes.
.TP
.B TERM ", " INT ", " QUIT
.B Rsyslogd