Skip to content

Conversation

AshFungor
Copy link

Issues: syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5541

The problem

Recently, starting with syslog-ng OSE version 4.10 file destinations acquired new option: logrotate(). This PR does three things:

  • inserts logrotate() option usage first in enumeration of log rotate approaches
  • adds link to log rotation page in the relevant place
  • fixes typos in top-level README.

@HofiOne, in the original issue you mentioned:

usage of external logrotators with reload/restart

Which I find a bit confusing because I thought that adding REOPEN command was done just to avoid reloading/restarting syslog-ng. If I'm wrong here and syslog-ng-ctl reopen cannot be used instead of reload/restart, I will remove relevant change in this PR.

Signed-off-by: AshFungor <evgenynarkhov2@gmail.com>
@CLAassistant
Copy link

CLAassistant commented Oct 16, 2025

CLA assistant check
All committers have signed the CLA.

@HofiOne
Copy link
Collaborator

HofiOne commented Oct 20, 2025

@HofiOne, in the original issue you mentioned:

usage of external logrotators with reload/restart

Which I find a bit confusing because I thought that adding REOPEN command was done just to avoid reloading/restarting syslog-ng. If I'm wrong here and syslog-ng-ctl reopen cannot be used instead of reload/restart, I will remove relevant change in this PR.

@AshFungor, sorry, I did not mean to include it without modification, as I and you mentioned, that part is outdated, so it must be double-checked and corrected too.

Signed-off-by: AshFungor evgenynarkhov2@gmail.com
@AshFungor
Copy link
Author

@HofiOne, thanks for your response. I rephrased that part, so users will know that syslog-ng-ctl reopen is the preferred option now.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

3 participants