Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:51:27 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: syslogd and inetd problems Message-ID: <20020517115127.B65921@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020517024345.A75815@iguana.icir.org>; from rizzo@icir.org on Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:43:45AM -0700 References: <20020517024345.A75815@iguana.icir.org>
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On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:43:45AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Hi,
> recently I have seen the following problems with inetd and syslogd,
> so was wondering if my diagnose is correct, other have seen them,
> and how urgent is a fix.
>
> syslogd:
>
> + i am using syslogd to log to a remote system. From time to time,
> the syslog daemon stops sending to the remote system, and I need
> to restart it. Haven't traced the problem in detail, but it usually
> happens across some network outage between the two.
>
> A high level inspection of the code in syslogd.c suggests that
> the daemon closes the connection on a sendto failure, which is
> probably not the smartest thing to do. At the very least, the
> code should implement some recovery mechanism.
Yes. I have patches someone sent me for this. IIRC, there is a PR
attached. Before you start writing code, I'll try to forward the
patches today or tomorrow.
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