id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	uname	nginx_version
1805	Cannot reopen log files without restarting nginx	ljelinek-niccz@…		"Reopening log files after log rotation silently fails. There is no error reported but the old log files remain open instead of closing it and opening the new ones.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install nginx from Debian 9 or Ubuntu 16.04 packages.
2. Let nginx to work some time in real operation to create some log records.
3. Run logrotate.

Expected result:
The old log files are closed and the new ones are open.

Current result:
The old log files remain open (nginx writes into them) and the new ones remain intact.


Attempts to reopen log files using 'nginx -s reopen' or 'kill -USR1 `cat /run/nginx.pid`' have the same result. They don't work. The only way how to force reopening the log files is 'systemctl restart nginx' or similar restart commands.


Information for Debian 9: in special text fields (uname -a, nginx -V)


Information for Ubuntu 16.04:

uname -a
Linux hk 4.4.0-154-generic #181-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 25 05:29:03 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.10.3 (Ubuntu)
built with OpenSSL 1.0.2g  1 Mar 2016
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --with-cc-opt='-g -O2 -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -fPIE -pie -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now' --prefix=/usr/share/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi --with-debug --with-pcre-jit --with-ipv6 --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_auth_request_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_geoip_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_image_filter_module --with-http_v2_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_xslt_module --with-stream --with-stream_ssl_module --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --with-threads
"	defect	closed	minor		nginx-core	1.10.x	invalid	log,		Linux proxy 4.4.0-150-generic #176-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 29 18:56:26 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux	"nginx version: nginx/1.10.3
built with OpenSSL 1.1.0f  25 May 2017 (running with OpenSSL 1.1.0j  20 Nov 2018)
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --with-cc-opt='-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/nginx-0TiIP5/nginx-1.10.3=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now' --prefix=/usr/share/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid --modules-path=/usr/lib/nginx/modules --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi --with-debug --with-pcre-jit --with-ipv6 --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_auth_request_module --with-http_v2_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_slice_module --with-threads --with-http_addition_module --with-http_geoip_module=dynamic --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_image_filter_module=dynamic --with-http_sub_module --with-http_xslt_module=dynamic --with-stream=dynamic --with-stream_ssl_module --with-mail=dynamic --with-mail_ssl_module --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-0TiIP5/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/nginx-auth-pam --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-0TiIP5/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/nginx-dav-ext-module --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-0TiIP5/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/nginx-echo --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-0TiIP5/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/nginx-upstream-fair --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-0TiIP5/nginx-1.10.3/debian/modules/ngx_http_substitutions_filter_module"