[rsyslog] how to best rotate files

[Rainer Gerhards]

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 01:31 -0700, david at lang.hm wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Rainer Gerhards wrote:

> one other item that occured to me, should I even be doing the kill -HUP? 
> or does rsyslog open the file for writing each time (so that I just have 
> to mv the file away and it will create a new one)?

no, you need the HUP. Otherwise the file is kept open (so this is no
easy way to improve performance ;))

Rainer