From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 14:27:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BC8C37B404 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:27:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 95426 invoked by uid 100); 7 Mar 2002 22:27:14 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15495.59713.840372.942946@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:27:13 -0600 To: "Martin Gignac" Cc: "Mike Meyer" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird syslogd behavior when logging to remote hosts? In-Reply-To: <20020307084329.M53558@mobilitylab.net> References: <59442089@toto.iv> <15495.8693.313723.431169@guru.mired.org> <20020307084329.M53558@mobilitylab.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) 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 Martin Gignac 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? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message