Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:40:21 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Edstr=F6m?= Johan <johan.edstrom@hygiene.sca.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 - syslog problem? Message-ID: <3670E885.B2C764DE@hygiene.sca.se> References: <t7YcjcY83E.sriva@alice.it>
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Have the same problem, read somewhere that when a
remote machine using the syslog facility dies unexpectedly this
"f*cks" up the running syslogd. Not much of a help huh... ;-)
I've not seen it in 2.2.8 (yet)
/JE
sriva@alice.it wrote:
>
> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:30:17 +0100
> From: sriva@alice.it
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>
> Hi all.
>
> I installed 2.2.7 on a HP Netserver E30 P5/166 without any trouble (I've
> done it many times on machines of the same kind) to replace an old 486/66
> with 2.2.5. The system is our internal SMTP/DNS/PPP and fax server. I use
> also Samba, NFS and other applications/services.
> The fax server is a mail gateway written by myself, based on the last
> version of mgetty+sendfax, ghostscript and mpack. There is also a front-end
> for a Windows application which prints on Samba in PS and the PS source is
> delivered to a message-builder daemon via pseudo-terminals (I did it for
> trial).
> As you can see the configuration is at least a little bit complex, but
> everything worked pretty well with 2.2.5 for months. With 2.2.7 I've got a
> strange problem which I'm unable to solve: the fax server logs everything
> with syslog, INFO and ERR levels, default USER facility. I use the log for
> statistical purposes. The problem is that since I moved on the new 2.2.7
> box, sometimes syslog works and sometimes don't. Often syslog doesn't work
> in the morning, before 10:40-11:10 AM (!?), but I can't see a definite rule.
> I tried to change facility to LOCAL0/1/etc, but it doesn't matter.
> Of course newsyslog isn't involved and there aren't processes ran by CRON
> that clear the log.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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>
> Stefano Riva
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