Application holding old rotated/deleted logs and still writing after log rotation
Issue
- lsof output shows rsyslog holding deleted files
- deleted files are log files which were rotated by logrotate
- Application still writing to old files and new logs are empty
- Restarting the application releases the deleted file and new logs starts writing
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Logrotate
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