[PLUG] logrotate question

[Michael Whitman <michaelw@palawnet.com>]

The example below is from the man page of logrotate.  I am setting up 
logrotation for apache.
My question is why the killall is necessary?  Isn't this going to stop my 
webserver?
-HUP just means you are specifying a process name rather than a PID right?

"/var/log/httpd/access.log" /var/log/httpd/error.log {
           rotate 5
           errors www@my.org
           size=100k
           sharedscripts
           postrotate
                                     /sbin/killall -HUP httpd
           endscript
       }


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