Nginx does not re-open log files on SIGUSR1.

[Piotr Karbowski]

Hi Piotr,

On 01/03/2011 12:38 PM, Piotr Sikora wrote:
> Are you sure that logrotate sends SIGUSR1?
> Did you try sending this signal yourself?
> How did you verify that logs did not re-open?

Yes, I checked twice logrotate's nginx rules and I tried send USR1 by 
myself. To check, after rotate I did wc -l on my_vhost.access_log and it 
was empty, I was hitting it with wget but until I did restart or reload, 
log was empty.

I was able to 'fix' it, which is more like workaround than a real fix, 
by adding permissions for nginx user to /var/log/nginx.

Before I had 700 root:root on /var/log/nginx because I am a little 
paranoid and I saw no real reason to add workers there since master 
process, running as root, is writting there.

After changing owner to nginx, nginx is able re-open logs after SIGUSR1.

Looks like rotated empty logs have root:root 600 perms, maybe it is the 
problem? But again, I think master write there, not workers.

-- Piotr.