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Eirik,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>What is the string you are using for varnishncsa?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Steve</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 10, 2007, at 2:04 PM, Eirik Øverby wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I suspect I've asked this before:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Quoting the man page:</div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> -w file Write log entries to file instead of displaying them. The</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> file will be overwritten unless the -a option was specified.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> If varnishncsa receives a SIGHUP while writing to a file, it</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> will reopen the file, allowing the old one to be rotated</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> away.</font></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Put shortly, varnishncsa seems to totally ignore HUP signals. No log file reopening takes place. I see from the source that code is there to handle it, but I lack the skills and time to figure out why it's not hit, or not working as (I) expect(ed).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I remember trying this some time ago as well, while varnish 1.0 was the hotness, and found the same behavior. I've meanwhile resorted to writing to a fifo buffer and reading from there using flog. Not pretty, but it works.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>/Eirik</div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">varnish-misc mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:varnish-misc@projects.linpro.no">varnish-misc@projects.linpro.no</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc">http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>