Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@???> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 09:51:38PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
>>I'll start to package 0.26.0 fixes after the end of this world, normally
>>after tomorrow :)
>
> Thanks for your work, but I have a question about the logrotate
> script. It belongs to the package mythlogserver and contains the
> lines:
>
> postrotate
> killall -HUP mythlogserver
> endscript
> su mythtv mythtv
>
> Why?
Copy/paste from
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Logrotate_-_all_applications
> The backend is logging via syslog. Do we need to send a HUP to
> the mythlogserver? If I understand the su line the signal is sent as
> mythtv user. This doesn’t work (at least in my case) for the
> frontend. It is running as another user, so I get error messages from
> cron. Besides that my frontend is using syslog as well. I have
> commented the three postrotate lines on the frontend and don’t see any
> problems.
If I understand correctly, mythlogserver is here to send messages to
syslog and syslog is here to write (or not) these messages to log files.
Christian
