Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:16:31 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fifo log problem Message-ID: <73413.1226301391@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:43:53 EST." <200811040143.mA41hjaa029665@lava.sentex.ca>
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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... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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