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Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin@pobox.com> wrote:
> The problem is that when apache restarts, say a graceful USR1
> restart, then it kills the old svlogd and starts a new one fast enough
> that I almost always get:
>
> svlogd: warning: unable to lock directory: /var/log/apache2/access: temporary failure
> svlogd: fatal: no functional log directories.

You could change your svlogd invocation to "sleep 1 && svlogd ...".


paul