Bug#37342: debian-policy: [PROPOSED] move to logrotate

[psu25682@odin.cc.pdx.edu (Karl M. Hegbloom)]

>>>>> "bazsi" == bazsi  <bazsi@balabit.hu> writes:

    bazsi>      Here is a good example for a logrotate config file
    bazsi>      (for more information see logrotate(8)):

    bazsi>         /var/log/apache/* {
    bazsi>            [...]
    bazsi>            kill -HUP `cat /var/run/apache.pid`
    bazsi>            endscript
    bazsi>         }

    bazsi>      Which rotates all files under `/var/log/apache', saves
    bazsi>      12 compressed generations, and sends a HUP signal at
    bazsi>      the end of rotation.

 Shouldn't that use `/etc/init.d/apache reload' instead?  Most things,
 as far as I know, will work that way, sed -e 's/apache/$DAEMON/'.  I
 think it would be good to display the /etc/init.d/* method in this
 policy item, as a way of documenting that feature of the sysvinit
 scripts, which provide a standard interface to reloading any daemon.