nginx logfile rotation

[Jim Ohlstein]

Ray wrote:
> Am trying to configure for logfile rotation using logrotate with nginx 
> (0.7.61).  As the logrotate script runs, the old logfile is renamed 
> and a new one is created, but nginx still writes to the old (renamed) 
> logfile even with open_log_file_cache set to off according to 
> http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpLogModule#open_log_file_cache
>
> Is there anything that I'm missing out?
>
> Ray.
kill -USR1 `cat /path/to/nginx.pid`