[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How to rotate /var/log/chef/client.log?

[KC Braunschweig < >]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Bryan McLellan 
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> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Michael Herman 
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>> My only issue with using logrotate, is that if chef-client is mid-run at 
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>> time logrotate executes, it gets killed.
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> It seems like an enhancement to continue a run on TERM would be
> worthwhile too, probably implemented similarly to how the USR1 signal
> triggers a run but won't interrupt an existing run.

Agreed. This would also fix the issue that you make a change to a chef
config (/etc/sysconfig/chef-client for example) which needs a restart
of chef-client but calling the restart in mid run kills the run and
the daemon, requiring a manual start to recover.

KC