Sending nginx errors to syslog but fuser -u still shows error file open by nginx

[Robert Paprocki]

Have you done a full restart (not a reload)? I would imagine the master process needs to flush everything out. 

> On Apr 20, 2016, at 06:24, CJ Ess <zxcvbn4038 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've tried putting this directive into the nginx config file in both the main and html sections:
> 
> error_log syslog:server=127.0.0.1,facility=local5 error;
> 
> The file tests fine and reloads without issue, however if I do fuser -u on the error file (which is the same one used by syslog) I see that every nginx process has it open. Is there anyway to be sure that errors are being written by syslog and not the nginx process itself?
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