I would no recommend a restart. You can use log4j to do this without a restart.

Bill Bell
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On Mar 31, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Paul <p...@nines.org> wrote:

> I'm about to set up log rotation using logrotate, but I have a
> question about how to do it.
> 
> The general examples imply that one should include the following in the 
> script:
> 
> postrotate
> /sbin/service solr restart
> endscript
> 
> but it seems to me that any requests that come in during that restart
> process are going to return errors. The other way to do it is to use
> 
> copytruncate
> 
> but that will cause any requests that come in during the time that the
> file is being truncated to not appear in the log.
> 
> How do you set up your logrotate file?
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul

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