Re: bin/46023: Add -S pidfile option to newsyslog(8)

[Julian Djamil Fagir <gnrp%komkon2.de@localhost>]

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From: Julian Djamil Fagir <gnrp%komkon2.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/46023: Add -S pidfile option to newsyslog(8)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:38:35 +0200

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 Hi,
 
 > NetBSD newsyslog(8) uses hardcoded path to syslogd.pid to notificate
 > syslogd that log files has been rotated. It might be problematic if you
 > want to use non standard syslog e.g. wip/rsyslog5 which has different pid
 > file location:
 >=20
 > # newsyslog -F
 > newsyslog: /var/run/syslogd.pid: No such file or directory
 >=20
 > There are several way to handle this problem
 >  1. Change newsyslog.conf and add pid files with new path
 >  2. Link /var/run/rsyslogd.pid to /var/run/syslogd.pid
 >  3. Provide configurable syslogd.pid path to newsyslog(8)
 
 I would still prefer option 1 over 3. That's what the configuration file is
 for. Plus, the behaviour should be more documented. I would expect to have
 the command line arguments *over* the configuration file, not being only the
 fallback in case there is no pidfile specified.
 
 Regards, Julian
 
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