Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:53:19 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: syslogd problems... Message-ID: <3BBB5E9F.8030803@magpage.com>
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Here at the isp I work for we recently replaced the box that serves as our syslog server with a new FreeBSD box. We spent a few weeks getting everything everything set up on it and haven't made world since as this box runs a couple of other critical services. It went live last week. Since then on more than a couple of occasions I've had to manually restart syslogd after it (apparently) hung. The process was still running but nothing was being logged, not local stuff and not stuff from remote machines. HUP'ing syslogd didn't fix this condition, I had to kill it then start it back up. Unfortunately I didn't spend too much time trying to investigate while this was happening as at the time my first priority was to get things logging again. This happens at random times which do not correlate with newsyslog runs. Seeing as how there is at least 200Mb logged to various logs per hour could it be related to the volume of syslog data coming in? I noticed that syslogd.c was changed a few days ago. That wouldn't have been to address something like this, would it? Any ideas as to what could be going on here or what I can do next time this happens to try to track down the cause? I'll be more than happy to clarify anything I've written here or provide additional details if needed. Thanks for your help. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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