Why do http transfers terminate when logrotate runs ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We ran a wget loop that pulled a 3GB file via HTTP.  It ran fine until 21:02 Sunday night, where it pulled about 2.2GB and then stopped.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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