From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 21:53:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA21346 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:53:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA21308 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:53:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id UAA14942 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 20:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA15170; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 20:40:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 20:40:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Peter Olsson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd sometimes vanishes without a trace? In-Reply-To: <3.0b26.32.19961024164432.00698210@lda> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Peter Olsson wrote: > 2.1.0-RELEASE. 2 of our servers have suddenly got the problem that syslogd > sometimes dies. I see it in the mail from daily, when daily tries to kill > -1 syslogd and can't find the process. > > Known problem? How can I try to log the reason of the disappearal? What does /var/log/messages report? I wasn't aware that daily was in the business of killing rogue syslogd's. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major