nginx logfile rotation

[Ray]

Is there any way other than killing/restarting the nginx processes?  Am
asking this because it seemed to me that nginx shouldn't need to be
restarted for it to use the new log file, if I didn't read the wiki wrongly.

Ray.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Jim Ohlstein <jim at ohlste.in> wrote:

> 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`
>
>
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