[Zope] SIGUSR2 not working in 2.6.1?

[Steve McMahon]

I've been trying to figure out how to use SIGUSR2 for log rotation with 
Zope 2.6.1, and am having no luck. The transcript below shows a sample 
attempt to move Z2.log, create a new one, then use SIGUSR2 to get Zope 
to reopen the log, hopefully with the new file. My event log indicates 
that Zope's received the signal and it claims to have reopened the logs, 
but the old, moved log is still being updated.

Note that using SIGHUP works. All this is happening on Zope 2.6.1, 
FreeBSD 4.5, Python 2.1.3. Any ideas?

/var/db/zope261/var #mv Z2.log Z2.log.rotate
/var/db/zope261/var #touch Z2.log; chmod 664 Z2.log
/var/db/zope261/var #kill -USR2 `cat Z2.pid`
/var/db/zope261/var #tail event.log
------
2003-02-24T08:47:20 INFO(0) Z2 Caught signal SIGUSR2
------
2003-02-24T08:47:20 INFO(0) Z2 Reopening log files
------
2003-02-24T08:47:20 INFO(0) Z2 Log files reopened successfully

[Zope activity]
/var/db/zope261/var #ls -l Z2.log
-rw-rw-r--  1   zope  0 Feb 24 08:46 Z2.log
[note: old log file is still being updated.]

[now try SIGHUP, which works]
/var/db/zope261/var #kill -HUP `cat *.pid`
[Zope activity]
/var/db/zope261/var #ls -l Z2.log
-rw-rw-r--  1   zope  1545 Feb 24 08:48 Z2.log


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