[rsyslog] HUP action

[Lorenzo M. Catucci]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Rainer Gerhards wrote:

RG> Thanks for the feedback, but please let me ask one question:
RG> 
RG> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 11:42 +0200, Lorenzo M. Catucci wrote:
RG> 
RG> > Still, I'd like to have a way to force full restart without really tearing 
RG> > down and reloading the server. What about (optionally?) binding current 
RG> > HUP behaviour to USR2 adding a default on option like $USR2isRestart?
RG> 
RG> Why is this useful? I am trying to understand the use cases and why a
RG> "normal" restart is not desirable.
RG> 

Habits, pid stability, monitoring systems, one less thing to break... etc.

Yours,

	lorenzo

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