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At 11:34 AM 11/3/2008, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>In message <200811031547.mA3FlVVs024666@lava.sentex.ca>, Mike Tancsa writes:
>
> >Seems to work fine with cat
>
>Ok, and the loss is not from one end, it is random records in
>the middle ?


Yes, they seem to initially get written and then tail off for some 
reason. I am not sure why.  Actually, if I SIGHUP syslogd, it seems 
to make a difference, in that I can generally see when newsyslog sig 
HUPs syslog to do log rotation.  Perhaps this is confusing things ?


e.g.

  1225628270 Nov  2 07:17:50 st32278 ovpn-kit[1047]: Initialization 
Sequence Completed
   1225641602 Nov  2 11:00:02 st32278 syslogd: restart
   1225641608 Nov  2 11:00:08 st32278 ppp[927]: tun0: Chat: deflink: 
Redial timer expired.

In this snippet the last entry was 07:17 for some reason and then the 
SIGHUP from newsyslog seems to wake things up for some reason.

         ---Mike



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