From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 7 22:51:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0541B14DD2 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 22:51:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA02806; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 07:51:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 07:51:46 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001080651.HAA02806@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd stops X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <8565ih$2kn8$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony Simaz wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > If anyone knows a solution to this I would love to hear it as well. I > have a 2.2.8 mail server running at a remote location that does the same > thing. I have another 2.2.8 mail server at my office that has never done > it. But the other one just stops logging once in a while. No warnings of > any kind or unusual messages prior to it halting. I just log in from the > office and see that it quit last night sometime. What exactly do you mean by "quit"? Did the syslogd process exit? If so, it should have logged why it exited (unless it's killed by a SIGKILL). > It's not real > consistant either. It probably quits about once every two or three > weeks. In my case sighup is useless as well. I have to kill syslogd and > restart it. Ah, so the process is still there. Does it consume any CPU? What is the last line that have been logged? What happens when you type this command: logger -i -p kern.emerg -t test "It's alive!" Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message