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To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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Subject: Re: fifo log problem 
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In message <200811040143.mA41hjaa029665@lava.sentex.ca>, Mike Tancsa writes:

>I tried changing the config so that there is only the fifo log being 
>written to and disabled newsyslog so that syslogd is not getting a 
>HUP signal.  The strange thing is that reading from it gives 
>different results?!?
>
>Sometimes doing
>[ps0278]# fifolog_reader all.fifo | wc
>>From    0 Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
>To      1225760679 Mon Nov  3 20:04:39 2008
>Read from 1d800
>       59     413    3068
>0[ps0278]#
>
>and a exactly for 1min it will show the correct results
>
>0[ps0278]# fifolog_reader all.fifo | wc
>>From    0 Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
>To      1225760538 Mon Nov  3 20:02:18 2008
>Read from 0
>    10765   75995  556816
>0[ps0278]#

I could fear that you have two fifologs running at the same time,
possibly as a result of syslogd doing something strange on sighup...

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