logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default

[Colin Walters]

On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 14:29 +0200, Jan Kaluža wrote:

> This is usually fixed by sending some signal to daemon in postscript 
> informing it that logs should be reopened. That way, no messages are 
> lost. The worst thing which can happen is that some messages get logged 
> in the rotated file for short time (after rename is done by logrotate 
> and before daemon reopens the new log).

It's worth noting that all of these problems go away with the systemd
journal.