Can anyone explain what is nginx.old?

Server NGINX
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I’m seeing some warnings in root log files regarding excessive processes
for nginx.old…

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On Sunday 13 November 2011 10:58:39 Ilan B. wrote:

I’m seeing some warnings in root log files regarding excessive processes
for nginx.old…

When you do “make install” to some destination directory, and
installation script
finds out that there is an old “nginx” binary, then it renames the old
binary to
the “nginx.old”, before copying the new one.

wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev