From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 14 16: 7:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from visar.norris-net.com (adsl-156-87-134.asm.bellsouth.net [66.156.87.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B9C37B400 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:07:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from derrick@localhost) by visar.norris-net.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1F07KT01716 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:07:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from derrick) Message-Id: <200202150007.g1F07KT01716@visar.norris-net.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Derrick Norris Reply-To: derrick@norris-net.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: syslogd stops logging after 3 days uptime Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:07:20 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks: Since upgrading to 4.5-RELEASE with buildworld/buildkernel etc., I have noticed that syslogd stops writing log messages after about 3 days of system uptime. I first noticed this about a week ago because I went to look at my maillog and it was empty. I rebooted the system and sendmail started logging again. I last rebooted system on Feb. 8 09:17, and the last normal entry I can find in any of my logs (all, cron, auth, daemon, mail, kern, messages -- I log a bunch of stuff) was on Feb. 11 10:59. After that, all that was in any of the log files was the "newsyslog: logfile turned over" messages each midnight. I have just rebooted system again and will see how long it keeps logging this time. I didn't check if syslogd was actually running before rebooting, but if it stops logging again I will check to see if syslogd itself has quit. Another strange thing I noticed, in my syslog.log, for the few nights before it stopped logging everything, I got five "syslogd: restart" messages 10 seconds apart, starting at midnight (like at 00:00:00, 00:00:09, 00:00:19, etc.). Is this normal? Don't recall this happening while I was running 4.4. I looked through my -bugs and -questions mail folders for anyone having a similar problem, but didn't see anything so I am posting this. Thanks for any insight, Derrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message