From: Timo Sirainen <timo.sirainen@open-xchange.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:11:20 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: man: Clarify how doveadm log reopen works
X-Git-Tag: 2.3.14.rc1~19
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=34f7b38b50d283cfd62a147a931c6da75faa1310;p=thirdparty%2Fdovecot%2Fcore.git

man: Clarify how doveadm log reopen works
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diff --git a/doc/man/doveadm-log.1.in b/doc/man/doveadm-log.1.in
index 9c7dead033..6662d7ddde 100644
--- a/doc/man/doveadm-log.1.in
+++ b/doc/man/doveadm-log.1.in
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ where your syslogd writes its log files.
 .PP
 This command causes
 .B doveadm
-to reopen all log files, configured in the
+to send a SIGUSR1 signal to master process, which causes it to
+reopen all log files configured in the
 .IR log_path ,
 .I info_log_path
 and
@@ -80,7 +81,8 @@ settings.
 These settings are configured in
 .IR @pkgsysconfdir@/conf.d/10\-logging.conf .
 .br
-This is for example useful after manually rotating the log files.
+The master process also signals the log process to do the same.
+This is mainly useful after manually rotating the log files.
 .\"-------------------------------------
 .SS log test
 .B doveadm log test