Bug#633803: mediatomb: does not close/reopen logfile on kill -HUP

[R. Scott Bailey]

Package: mediatomb
Version: 0.12.1-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

I'm guessing about the "upstream" part. I happened to notice my system has a
huge /var/log/mediatomb.log.5 file that's still being written.

The /etc/logrotate.d/mediatomb script specifies that a pkill -HUP mediatomb
should be performed after rotating logfiles, but I verified (with lsof and
interactive use of kill -HUP) that the daemon appears to ignore this signal.

As an interim workaround, I'm kludging my logrotate script to just stop
and restart the daemon, which is rather heavy-handed.

Thanks,
Scott


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mediatomb depends on:
ii  elinks [www-browser]        0.12~pre5-4  advanced text-mode WWW browser
ii  iceweasel [www-browser]     3.5.19-3     Web browser based on Firefox
ii  konqueror [www-browser]     4:4.6.3-1    advanced file manager, web browser
ii  lynx-cur [www-browser]      2.8.8dev.9-2 Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup
ii  mediatomb-daemon            0.12.1-2     UPnP MediaServer (daemon package)
ii  w3m [www-browser]           0.5.3-2+b1   WWW browsable pager with excellent

mediatomb recommends no packages.

mediatomb suggests no packages.

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