From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 5 15:35:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24EB1065673 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:35:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from mail-gw4.njit.edu (mail.njit.edu [128.235.251.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCEE78FC19 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:35:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from gilgamesh.maestro (dhcp114-134.njit.edu [128.235.114.134]) by mail-gw4.njit.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m75FZ3pF024145 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:35:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4898739E.9070805@wallnet.com> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:37:02 -0400 From: Tim Kellers User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071217) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <489860BA.8030300@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <489860BA.8030300@wallnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: syslogd stopped X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:35:06 -0000 I hit send too soon, the machine is: FreeBSD www 6.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 16 04:18:52 UTC 2008 root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Tim Kellers wrote: > I found some OLD reports of this happening (back in 2001 or so), but I > haven't seen anyone mention it. > > On August 1st, my /var/log/maillog files started rolling over empty > files, nightly, with only the "logfile turned over [date]" message in > them. > > Turns out, syslogd stopped running. As soon as I restarted it, and > grepped for it: > > # ps -ax | grep syslog > 48049 ?? Ss 0:00.02 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s > > It began running and my /var/log/maillog file has entries once > again. I'm a little baffled; does anyone have any idea what might be > going on or could maybe point me to a resource I might have missed > that discusses it? > > Thanks > > Tim > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >