[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#602698: puppetmaster - Uses restart in logroate script

[micah anderson]

On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 11:38:43 +0100, Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> The puppet logroate script uses /etc/init.d/puppetmaster restart. This
> includes two problems:
> - It does not use invoke-rc.d, which is by now a SHOULD.
> - It stops all running mongrel processes instead of using the included
>   log reopen functionality via SIGUSR2.

in what way should the restart be called?

> The second problem produces a lot of log traffic, because the server is
> temporarily not available. Part of a patch for this problem.

this patch just adds the 'log-reopen' option to the initscript, it
doesn't change how restart works. are you suggesting that restart should
be changed from doing a stop then a start, and instead do only a
'log-reopen'? 

micah
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