nginx logfile rotation

[Jim Ohlstein]

Ray wrote:
> 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.
The "kill" command doesn't kill the process. It merely sends a signal to 
it, in this case "USR1" which re-opens the log file.

See 
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxCommandLine#Controlling_Nginx_Via_the_Signals .
>
> Ray.
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Jim Ohlstein <jim at ohlste.in 
> <mailto: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`
>
>
Jim