Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 05:02:35 +0100 From: NOC-GFX <sysadmin@mfn.org> To: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: rwhod / syslogd anomaly Message-ID: <01BDAE1B.73B84C90@noc.mfn.org>
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Greetings, First, let me apologize if this is the wrong forum, I wasn't sure: I've gone around and around with this on -questions but with no resolution... First off, the base problem started out as rwhod dying with no messages or log entries to LOG_DAEMON, for reasons I still haven't figured out. It dies after about three minutes of up time (the magic number according to the source), and doesn't peep a thing. And the *really* strange part is that if you try to bring up back up, it won't start, *nor* leave a message/log entry as to why not! I have not coded in c since 1985, so to say that my skills are rusty is an understatement: this has left me in the position of trying to track this thing down using really dirty hacks like fprintf's to mark where I am in the code. So far I have put a message out to std-err before every single exit() call in the source, and have not seen a single one show up. On top of that, I made sure that the facility for logging rwhod was up and set correctly by forcing errors while it was up for its initial (IPL) 3 minute run. Before it dies, it logs correctly, after it dies, it neither runs nor logs. So, here's where I'm at now: (1) A thorough search of the archives has turned up nothing for either rwhod/syslogd. (2) I need to establish (a) what can stop a program dead like this, and (b) what can prevent it from either logging or putting messages out to stderr, all without generating *any* messages itself. (I have gone over the other logs dozens of times with a fine tooth comb, even the "Daemon" log, which is just massive). Does anybody have any thoughts on this? J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org (PS: Please cc me directly, as I am not a -hackers recipient. Thanks!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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