Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 06:44:13 +0100 (CET) From: token@mayn.de To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/10553: syslogd suddenly stopped logging Message-ID: <199903120544.GAA12496@spacebus.mayn.de>
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>Number: 10553
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: syslogd suddenly stopped logging
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Mar 11 21:50:01 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: m. k. buelow
>Release: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
GeFoekoM e.V.
>Environment:
The machine is used for central logging and receives syslog
connections from several other machines (including high traffic
web servers which log a lot; however disk space and cpu time are
lots available). The machine is also hosting nfs and running
named. It was upgraded from 2.2.7 about 3 weeks ago.
>Description:
I do not know why but syslogd had stopped logging to any files
after about 10 days of system uptime.
logger(1) messages did not show up anymore in the logs, neither
did anything else. Syslogd was still running and tracing it
and then sending it something with logger(1) showed the following:
99 syslogd PSIG SIGALRM caught handler=0x804afc0 mask=0x1 code=0x0
99 syslogd RET poll -1 errno 4 Interrupted system call
99 syslogd CALL gettimeofday(0xefbfc854,0)
99 syslogd RET gettimeofday 0
99 syslogd CALL setitimer(0,0xefbfc84c,0xefbfc83c)
99 syslogd RET setitimer 0
99 syslogd CALL sigreturn(0xefbfc888)
99 syslogd RET sigreturn JUSTRETURN
That is all.
kill -HUP didn't change anything, killing it and starting it again
made logging come back to normal operation.
>How-To-Repeat:
Dunno.
>Fix:
None known to me.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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