<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 15, 2012, at 2:10 , S Ahmed wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_extra">m irya,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks. I'm planning to run 12.04 ubuntu.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">What exactly does 're-opening' of a log file mean? Isn't it already open, meaning nginx has it open and is appending to it?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>So step by step, what is to be done?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">1. kill -USR1</div><div class="gmail_extra">2. rename file?</div><div class="gmail_extra">
3. kill -USR1 'cat /var/run/nginx.pid'</div><div class="gmail_extra">4. profit</div></blockquote><br></div><div>1. rename file</div><div class="gmail_extra">2. kill -USR1 'cat /var/run/nginx.pid'</div><div class="gmail_extra">3. sleep 2</div><div class="gmail_extra">4. do everything with the file: gzipping, moving to other host, etc.</div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div><div>
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