From owner-freebsd-questions  Tue Sep 25 18:16:26 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4924737B40B
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:16:24 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141])
	by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id 52A842B72F; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 03:16:10 +0200 (CEST)
Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001)
	id D7FBA60; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:15:13 +1000 (EST)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:15:13 +1000
From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: alexus <ml@db.nexgen.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: syslogd: restart
Message-ID: <20010926111513.D99595@k7.mavetju.org>
Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>,
	alexus <ml@db.nexgen.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
References: <000701c14626$ea0ce620$0d00a8c0@alexus>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
In-Reply-To: <000701c14626$ea0ce620$0d00a8c0@alexus>; from ml@db.nexgen.com on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:02:28PM -0400
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:02:28PM -0400, alexus wrote:
> su-2.05# grep restart /var/log/all.log
> Sep 25 00:00:11 box syslogd: restart
> ....
> Sep 25 21:00:21 box syslogd: restart
> su-2.05# grep -c restart /var/log/all.log
> 52
> su-2.05# 
> 
> any ideas why woudl syslogd restart on his own 50 times a day?

If you rotate log-files (because they're too big or too old), you
create the log-file again and syslog should be informed that it
should write to the new file. That's done with a restart. Note that
it's not a *start* (which is a clean start of the syslogd), but a
*restart*, which is a HUP signal send to the syslogd.

Edwin

-- 
Edwin Groothuis   |              Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org
edwin@mavetju.org |           Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions:
------------------+                       http://www.FatalDimensions.org/

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message