How to restart rsyslog on alpine?

Question

In my alpine 3.1..5 linux docker container, I installed rsyslog as:

# apk add --no-cache rsyslog

I am running rsyslogd as:

# rm -f /var/run/rsyslogd.pid
# rsyslogd

How do I restart rsyslogd without restarting my container? I tried:

# sudo service rsyslog restart
sudo: service: command not found

Also, the directory /etc/init.d/ is empty.

These are the processes in my container.

# ps
PID   USER     TIME  COMMAND
1 root      0:00 haproxy -W -db -f /usr/local/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
9 root      0:00 rsyslogd
16 root      0:00 /bin/sh
54 root      0:00 rsyslogd
59 root      0:00 rsyslogd

Thank you.

If that's the only process in your container (which it should be), then you can't. — jordanm, Apr 27 '20 at 17:41

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 02 '22 at 18:46

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This is working for me:

kill -HUP $(pidof rsyslogd)

answered Feb 02 '22 at 18:46

user953305

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How to restart rsyslog on alpine?

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