[mythtv-users] Logrotate settings for mythbackend.log?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 10:39, Jonathan Tidmore wrote:
> On 1/17/06, Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:
> >
> > No, signal HUP means "reload and start a new config file" (a proces 
> > can do 
> > what ever it wants with a HUP signal, but most of the times it's 
> > used to 
> > rotate the logfiles).
> 
> 
> 
> This may be true for most programs, but like you said, a process can 
> do what 
> it wants with a HUP signal.  Some may restart, some may exit, some may 
> do 
> nothing.  Point is, do we know what mythbackend does with a HUP 
signal?

Yes, it closes the current logfile and starts a new one, IIRC.

-JAC