salt-api stops logging after logrotate

[mpascual]

Description of Issue

It looks like after logrotate runs the log rotation, salt-api stops logging.

ls -l

total 822188
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jun 30 03:43 api
-rw-r----- 1 root root 38578 May 12 03:16 api-20190512.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 112280 May 17 18:47 api-20190519.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 228 May 22 17:20 api-20190526.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 122 May 30 07:02 api-20190602.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 122 Jun 12 16:53 api-20190613.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 123 Jun 24 14:24 api-20190625.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 186 Jun 25 17:56 api-20190630.gz

sudo lsof | grep salt | grep deleted | grep api

/usr/bin/ 11988 11993 /usr/bin/ root 3w REG 259,3 519 1051236 /var/log/salt/api-20190630 (deleted)

Similar to old issues:

• Minion sometimes stops logging after logrotate #13558
• Deb: log rotation issue #11716

Versions Report

(Provided by running salt --versions-report. Please also mention any differences in master/minion versions.)

salt --versions-report

Salt Version:
Salt: 2019.2.0

Dependency Versions:
cffi: 1.11.4
cherrypy: 3.8.0
dateutil: 2.6.1
docker-py: 3.7.1
gitdb: Not Installed
gitpython: Not Installed
ioflo: Not Installed
Jinja2: 2.10.1
libgit2: 0.26.8
libnacl: 1.6.1
M2Crypto: 0.31.0
Mako: Not Installed
msgpack-pure: Not Installed
msgpack-python: 0.6.1
mysql-python: 1.4.2.post1
pycparser: 2.14
pycrypto: 3.6.6
pycryptodome: Not Installed
pygit2: 0.26.4
Python: 2.7.15 (default, Mar 30 2019, 22:09:42)
python-gnupg: 0.4.3
PyYAML: 5.1
PyZMQ: 17.1.0
RAET: Not Installed
smmap: Not Installed
timelib: Not Installed
Tornado: 4.5.3
ZMQ: 4.3.1

System Versions:
dist: gentoo 2.6
locale: UTF-8
machine: x86_64
release: 4.19.27-gentoo-r1
system: Linux
version: Gentoo Base System 2.6

[dmurphy18]

Possibly related to #54142 and/or #48125

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[mpascual]

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