On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, James Webster wrote:

> I'm using
> newsyslog to rotate it's files.  Does timed not recognize the request to
> close and reopen it's logs?

Timed never gets the request; newsyslogd only sends the sighup to
syslogd.

There's been bits of discussion now and then about a better version
of newsyslogd that deals with stuff like this, and I once sketched
out some notes on it, but nobody's ever really taken it on.

cjs
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