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Date:      Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:27:13 -0600
From:      "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1015972034.78f9e0@mired.org>
To:        "Martin Gignac" <freebsd@mobilitylab.net>
Cc:        "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1015921013.0775c3@mired.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Weird syslogd behavior when logging to remote hosts?
Message-ID:  <15495.59713.840372.942946@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020307084329.M53558@mobilitylab.net>
References:  <59442089@toto.iv> <15495.8693.313723.431169@guru.mired.org> <20020307084329.M53558@mobilitylab.net>

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Martin Gignac <freebsd@mobilitylab.net> types:
> 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?

Nope, that I haven't seen nor heard of.

> 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?

I've done that twice now. I could swear djb wrote tools to do remote
logging safely. Maybe it's in the ucsd-tcpi port?

	<mike
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