[rsyslog-notify] Forum Thread: Wrong PID Filename on CentOS 7.2 Causes Logrotate Issue - (Mode 'post')

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User: shane.lawrence 
Forumlink: http://kb.monitorware.com/viewtopic.php?p=26724#p26724

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I noticed a strange issue with rsyslog:
[code:3qousnlp][root at aaabbbccc123 logrotate.d]# date
Thu Jul  7 20:03:24 UTC 2016
[root at aaabbbccc123 logrotate.d]# find /var/log/ -mmin -10
/var/log/secure-20160613
/var/log/messages-20160613
/var/log/rsyslog-stats.log
/var/log/lastlog
/var/log/audit/audit.log
/var/log/cron-20160613[/code:3qousnlp]
Rsyslog is writing to old, already-rotated log files (secure-20160613,
cron-20160613, messages-20160613) instead of the new files (secure, cron,
messages).

When I check the logrotate config, I find this:
[code:3qousnlp][root at aaabbbccc123 logrotate.d]# cat
/etc/logrotate.d/syslog
/var/log/cron
/var/log/maillog
/var/log/messages
/var/log/secure
/var/log/spooler
{
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2>
/dev/null || true
    endscript
}[/code:3qousnlp]
The actual name of the rsyslog pid file is:
[code:3qousnlp][root at aaabbbccc123 logrotate.d]# ls
/var/run/*syslog*
/var/run/rsyslogd.pid[/code:3qousnlp]
Rsyslog’s init script is configured to use “syslogd.pid”:
[code:3qousnlp][root at aaabbbccc123 etc]# grep pid
/etc/init.d/rsyslog
PIDFILE=/var/run/syslogd.pid
daemon --pidfile="${PIDFILE}" $exec -i "${PIDFILE}"
$SYSLOGD_OPTIONS[/code:3qousnlp]
The issue is on CentOS 7.2.1511 using rsyslog 8.19.0.

Does anyone know how to make it use the correct pid filename?