Documentation: 'reload' of rsyslog in logrotate doesn't work in Debian 7

[mig5]

The documentation for yubikey-val and yubikey-ksm suggests to create a Logrotate file that contains this postrotate command:

invoke-rc.d rsyslog reload > /dev/null

Debian Wheezy no longer supports 'reload' here. The logrotate cronjob errors out with the following:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
Usage: /etc/init.d/rsyslog {start|stop|rotate|restart|force-reload|status}
invoke-rc.d: initscript rsyslog, action "reload" failed.
error: error running non-shared postrotate script for /var/log/ykval.log of '/var/log/ykval.log '
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

Suggest to change 'reload' to 'restart' which works fine.

[jas4711]

Thanks, and agreed, let's fix this when we move the wiki files to asciidoc files.

[paulmenzel]

Has somebody worked on this already?

$ zcat /usr/share/doc/rsyslog/NEWS.Debian.gz
rsyslog (5.8.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  The way rsyslog processes SIGHUP has changed. It no longer does a reload
  of its configuration, but simply closes all open files, which is a much more
  lightweight operation.
  To apply a changed configuration, rsyslogd needs to be restarted now.
  As a consequence, the reload action has been dropped from the init script.

  A new action called "rotate" was added to the init script, which signals
  rsyslogd to close all open files. This new action is used in the rsyslog
  logrotate configuration file.

  For more information, see:
  http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v4compatibility.html
  http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v5compatibility.html

 -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Mon, 30 May 2011 18:26:51 +0200