wpa_supplicant continues writing to old log file after log rotation

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After log rotation as per the default configuration file /etc/logrotate.d/wpa_supplicant, wpa_supplicant.service is still writing to old log file.

  • After the wpa_supplicant.service is restarted, it writes to new log file.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • logrotate

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