Package: sysklogd
Version: 1.5-6.1

Hello,

The /etc/init.d/sysklogd reload-or-restart clause used in
/etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd does not work. Precisely, I have the
folowing effect:

At system startup, all is fine:
# lsof /var/log/mail/*
COMMAND     PID   USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
syslogd   30307 syslog    6w   REG  254,5     4734  423 /var/log/mail/mail.log
syslogd   30307 syslog    9w   REG  254,5     4734   75 /var/log/mail/mail.info
syslogd   30307 syslog   10w   REG  254,5       75  783 /var/log/mail/mail.warn
syslogd   30307 syslog   11w   REG  254,5       75  765 /var/log/mail/mail.err

Then:
# /etc/init.d/sysklogd reload-or-restart
Reloading system log daemon....
# lsof /var/log/mail/*
COMMAND    PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME

Only
# /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart
Restarting system log daemon....
# lsof /var/log/mail/*
COMMAND     PID   USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
syslogd   30470 syslog    6w   REG  254,5     4734  423 /var/log/mail/mail.log
syslogd   30470 syslog    9w   REG  254,5     4734   75 /var/log/mail/mail.info
syslogd   30470 syslog   10w   REG  254,5       75  783 /var/log/mail/mail.warn
syslogd   30470 syslog   11w   REG  254,5       75  765 /var/log/mail/mail.err

makes it work again.

First suspicion is that this effect is related to the newly
run-as-user feature.

Bye,

Joerg

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