From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 5:43:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mobilitylab.net (goldorak.ericsson.ca [192.75.89.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C05837B416 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 05:43:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 57719 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2002 08:43:29 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO mobilitylab.net) (172.20.2.2) by goldorak.mobilitylab.net with SMTP; 7 Mar 2002 08:43:29 -0500 From: "Martin Gignac" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird syslogd behavior when logging to remote hosts? Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:43:29 -0500 Message-Id: <20020307084329.M53558@mobilitylab.net> In-Reply-To: <15495.8693.313723.431169@guru.mired.org> References: <59442089@toto.iv> <15495.8693.313723.431169@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 1.62 20020305 X-OriginatingIP: 192.75.88.231 (freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It's standard behavior, and I see it all the time. If the server > stops responding to log messages for long enough, the client just stops > sending it messages. If you managed to get the server up before "long > enough", things will restart fine. I don't know whether or not it's > considered a bug, and havn't filed a PR on it. There are lots of > problems with logging to a remote system with syslog, so it probably > won't get fixed. If it really bothers you, try an alternative logging > technology, like syslog-ng or daemontools. Hi Mike, Thanks for your reply. I did find a PR concerning this behavior when the server stops responding, but in my case, it is after I reboot the _client_ that it seems to stop sending its logs (I wrongly used the term 'server' in my previous e-mail--I was actually talking about the client). I need to perform the 'killall -HUP syslogd' on the client before it will begin sending logging information to the syslog server. Have you heard of _this_ particular behavior? Thanks for the suggestion on syslog-ng. I had assumed that syslog was "the" standard and that there weren't really any other alternatives. I will probably give syslog-ng a try then. As for daemontools, I already use it. I know it comes with multilog. Are you suggesting I use it for remote logging? I didn't think it could that. Is there a way to consolidate all logs on a single host by using multilog in a certain configuration? Thanks, -Martin -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message