Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 22:17:50 +1100 From: aunty <aunty@comcen.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd stops Message-ID: <20000108221750.A38776@comcen.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200001080651.HAA02806@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> References: <8565ih$2kn8$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200001080651.HAA02806@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 07:51:46AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Tony Simaz <ajs@qtm.net> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> > If anyone knows a solution to this I would love to hear it as well. I
> > have a 2.2.8 mail server running at a remote location that does the same
> > thing. I have another 2.2.8 mail server at my office that has never done
> > it. But the other one just stops logging once in a while. No warnings of
> > any kind or unusual messages prior to it halting. I just log in from the
> > office and see that it quit last night sometime.
>
> What exactly do you mean by "quit"? Did the syslogd process
> exit? If so, it should have logged why it exited (unless it's
> killed by a SIGKILL).
Nope, it's very much alive, all dressed up and asleep at the wheel.
> > It's not real
> > consistant either. It probably quits about once every two or three
> > weeks. In my case sighup is useless as well. I have to kill syslogd and
> > restart it.
>
> Ah, so the process is still there. Does it consume any CPU?
> What is the last line that have been logged? What happens
> when you type this command:
>
> logger -i -p kern.emerg -t test "It's alive!"
It silently ignores that.
This should answer all of your questions... but not necessarily ours:
bash$ date
Sat Jan 8 22:06:50 EST 2000
bash$ ls -lart /var/log |tail
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 105 Jan 7 14:00 messages.1.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 101 Jan 7 18:00 maillog.1.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 108 Jan 8 14:00 messages.0.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 62 Jan 8 14:00 messages
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 102 Jan 8 18:00 maillog.0.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 62 Jan 8 18:00 maillog
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Jan 8 18:00 .
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 616 Jan 8 21:11 sendmail.st
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 176 Jan 8 22:06 wtmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 28056 Jan 8 22:06 lastlog
bash$ cat /var/log/messages
Jan 8 14:00:00 hostname newsyslog[40027]: logfile turned over
bash$ zcat /var/log/messages.0.zg
/var/log/messages.0.zg.gz: No such file or directory
bash$ zcat /var/log/messages.0
Jan 7 14:00:01 hostname newsyslog[35980]: logfile turned over
Jan 8 14:00:00 hostname newsyslog[40027]: logfile turned over
bash$ logger -i -p kern.emerg -t test "It's alive!"
bash$ cat /var/log/messages
Jan 8 14:00:00 hostname newsyslog[40027]: logfile turned over
bash$
bash$ ps waux | grep PID
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
bash$ ps waux | grep syslo
root 109 0.0 0.5 820 572 ?? Ss 23Dec99 7:42.94 syslogd
bash$ top -n
last pid: 40739; load averages: 0.20, 0.15, 0.06 up 15+22:23:14 22:13:21
26 processes: 1 running, 25 sleeping
Mem: 6548K Active, 41M Inact, 10M Wired, 3181K Buf, 66M Free
Swap: 260M Total, 260M Free
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
109 root 2 0 820K 572K poll 7:43 0.00% 0.00% syslogd
<remaining lines of top output snipped>
bash$ cat /etc/syslog.conf
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/syslog.conf,v 1.9.2.1 1999/08/29 14:19:02 peter Exp $
#
# Spaces are NOT valid field separators in this file.
# Consult the syslog.conf(5) manpage.
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console
*.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages
mail.info /var/log/maillog
lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs
cron.* /var/cron/log
#*.err root
#*.notice;news.err root
#*.alert root
*.emerg *
local2.* /var/log/sudo.log
local3.* /var/log/sshd.log
# uncomment these if you're running inn
# news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit
# news.err /var/log/news/news.err
# news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice
!startslip
*.* /var/log/slip.log
!ppp
*.* /var/log/ppp.log
!popper /var/log/pop.log
bash$
bash$ uname -v
FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Sep 16 23:40:35 GMT 1999 jkh@highwing.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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