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$NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.2 2013/02/18 20:32:09 imil Exp $

Consider adding something like following lines to /etc/newsyslog.conf:

${NGINX_LOGDIR}/access.log ${NGINX_USER}:${NGINX_GROUP} 640 7 * 24 Z  ${NGINX_PIDDIR}/nginx.pid SIGUSR1
${NGINX_LOGDIR}/error.log  ${NGINX_USER}:${NGINX_GROUP} 640 7 * 24 Z  ${NGINX_PIDDIR}/nginx.pid SIGUSR1

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