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Date:      Wed, 19 May 1999 13:31:12 +0200
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        Achim Patzner <ap@bnc.net>
Cc:        Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@hcs.de>, isdn@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Rename on SIGUSR1 for isdnd
Message-ID:  <3742A100.42141BEA@scc.nl>
References:  <3741EFAE.5C0BFD63@scc.nl> <m10k0sp-0000fgC@hcswork.hcs.de> <19990519124325.G51180@bnc.net>

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Achim Patzner wrote:

> > The idea behind isdnd's current behaviour is to have a shell script which
> > renames isdnd's log file and then send a SIGUSR1 signal to isdnd.
> 
> Which is the way it has been done for ages[tm].
> 
> > Comments ?
> 
> Yes. Renaming is violating the principle of causing the least surprises.

I'm more sensitive to your first remark. Maybe I'm not easily surprised
anymore :-)

To add something to the argument, I have a newsyslog.conf file with 18 lines
and none of them has a pidfile/signal specification. IIRC, the possibility to
specify them, so newsyslog could send a signal to the process (which btw
defaults to SIGHUP and not SIGUSR1) is recent WRT to your remark that it is
done for ages.

So, not surprisingly, both your statements are not as absolute as you put
them.

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Marcel Moolenaar                                  mailto:marcel@scc.nl
SCC Internetworking & Databases                     http://www.scc.nl/
Amsterdam, The Netherlands                         tel: +31 20 4200655


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