I see, thanks.<div><br></div><div>So there is there a small window of time when the logs will not be written or lost?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Igor Sysoev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:igor@sysoev.ru" target="_blank">igor@sysoev.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="im"><div><div>On Dec 15, 2012, at 2:10 , S Ahmed wrote:</div><br><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><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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