Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:37:02 -0400 From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd stopped Message-ID: <4898739E.9070805@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <489860BA.8030300@wallnet.com> References: <489860BA.8030300@wallnet.com>
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I hit send too soon, the machine is: FreeBSD www 6.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 16 04:18:52 UTC 2008 root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Tim Kellers wrote: > I found some OLD reports of this happening (back in 2001 or so), but I > haven't seen anyone mention it. > > On August 1st, my /var/log/maillog files started rolling over empty > files, nightly, with only the "logfile turned over [date]" message in > them. > > Turns out, syslogd stopped running. As soon as I restarted it, and > grepped for it: > > # ps -ax | grep syslog > 48049 ?? Ss 0:00.02 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s > > It began running and my /var/log/maillog file has entries once > again. I'm a little baffled; does anyone have any idea what might be > going on or could maybe point me to a resource I might have missed > that discusses it? > > Thanks > > Tim > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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