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Date:      Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:51:27 GMT
From:      Eirik Øverby <ltning@anduin.net>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   misc/118248: newsyslog does not obey -s (nosignal) flag
Message-ID:  <200711251951.lAPJpRZ9037958@www.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <200711252000.lAPK02Wj081854@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         118248
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       newsyslog does not obey -s (nosignal) flag
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 25 20:00:02 UTC 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Eirik Øverby
>Release:        6.2
>Organization:
N/A
>Environment:
FreeBSD xxx.xxxxx.xx 6.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 #0: Thu Jun  7 23:54:27 CEST 2007     root@xxx.xxxxx.xx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386


>Description:
The newsyslog program has an option -s to specify that processes should not be signaled when logs are rotated. This is particularly useful with the -R option. However, newsyslog attempts to signal the PID specified in newsyslog.conf no matter if -s is specified or not.
>How-To-Repeat:
newsyslog -sR "Testing" <path-to-log-file>
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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