Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:40:21 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Edstr=F6m?= Johan <johan.edstrom@hygiene.sca.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 - syslog problem? Message-ID: <3670E885.B2C764DE@hygiene.sca.se> References: <t7YcjcY83E.sriva@alice.it>
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Have the same problem, read somewhere that when a remote machine using the syslog facility dies unexpectedly this "f*cks" up the running syslogd. Not much of a help huh... ;-) I've not seen it in 2.2.8 (yet) /JE sriva@alice.it wrote: > > Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:30:17 +0100 > From: sriva@alice.it > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Hi all. > > I installed 2.2.7 on a HP Netserver E30 P5/166 without any trouble (I've > done it many times on machines of the same kind) to replace an old 486/66 > with 2.2.5. The system is our internal SMTP/DNS/PPP and fax server. I use > also Samba, NFS and other applications/services. > The fax server is a mail gateway written by myself, based on the last > version of mgetty+sendfax, ghostscript and mpack. There is also a front-end > for a Windows application which prints on Samba in PS and the PS source is > delivered to a message-builder daemon via pseudo-terminals (I did it for > trial). > As you can see the configuration is at least a little bit complex, but > everything worked pretty well with 2.2.5 for months. With 2.2.7 I've got a > strange problem which I'm unable to solve: the fax server logs everything > with syslog, INFO and ERR levels, default USER facility. I use the log for > statistical purposes. The problem is that since I moved on the new 2.2.7 > box, sometimes syslog works and sometimes don't. Often syslog doesn't work > in the morning, before 10:40-11:10 AM (!?), but I can't see a definite rule. > I tried to change facility to LOCAL0/1/etc, but it doesn't matter. > Of course newsyslog isn't involved and there aren't processes ran by CRON > that clear the log. > > Any ideas? > > --- > > Stefano Riva > Software & Systems Engineer > Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl > Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 > Email sriva@alice.it > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. -- Samuel Butler Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. -- Mark Twain ################################# Johan Edström, SCA IT Services johan.edstrom@hygiene.sca.se Telephone : +49 8035 80676 Telefax : +49 8035 80610 Cellular : +46 705 360245 ################################# To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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