Nginx restarting/log rotation

Server NGINX
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Morning all.

what is the correct procedure for asking nginx to reload the
configuration files?

and on that note, what is the procedure for restarting nginx to give me
a chance to rotate the log files once a day? something similar to an
“apachectl graceful”.

thanks
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Alan W. [email protected]
wrote:

Morning all.

what is the correct procedure for asking nginx to reload the configuration
files?

kill -HUP cat $PIDFILE

and on that note, what is the procedure for restarting nginx to give me a
chance to rotate the log files once a day? something similar to an
“apachectl graceful”.

hm… HM… … HM… :stuck_out_tongue:

-jf

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On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Alan W. wrote:

a
http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxCommandLine

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Thank you one and all. appreciate it.

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On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 09:19:16AM +0100, Alan W. wrote:

what is the correct procedure for asking nginx to reload the
configuration files?

-HUP

and on that note, what is the procedure for restarting nginx to give me
a chance to rotate the log files once a day? something similar to an
“apachectl graceful”.

Yes, but for instance log rotation you should use -USR1