Today, while trying to debug some rsyslog issues, I changed the rsyslog configuration files and then ran
systemctl restart rsyslog A sytemctl status showed that rsyslog was running, but its log files were not being written.
I then invoked
systemctl stop rsyslog systemctl start rsyslog At this point rsyslog's log files began growing.
I thought this might have been a fluke, but I repeated the process with the same results.
I assume that restart should have been the same as stop + start. Does this sound like a bug in systemd, or in the rsyslog service?
reload.