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That’s news to me. I’ve been managing Apache hosts for well over a decade and never had an issue. Used apache 1.3, 2.2 and 2.4.

What’s your log rotation code look like?

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You have to do a graceful restart after rotation, according to the docs, which then leads to scripts that try a couple times and then reboot. (It's been a while, but I did have an install where graceful restart would work once, but consistently fail on the second rotation).

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/logs.html#rotation

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If you don’t change the inode then no restart should be required. There’s definitely a few tools out there that solve this problem without needing to restart httpd.