From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 15 16:21:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from security1.noc.flyingcroc.net (security1.noc.flyingcroc.net [207.246.128.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279A037BCA9 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 16:21:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@flyingcroc.net) Received: from localhost (todd@localhost) by security1.noc.flyingcroc.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA05416 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 16:21:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@flyingcroc.net) X-Authentication-Warning: security1.noc.flyingcroc.net: todd owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 16:21:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Backman X-Sender: todd@security1.noc.flyingcroc.net To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: syslogd poll state Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings. Application: I am running a central syslog repository that logs +250 freebsd servers. The syslog server is running 4.0-STABLE on good hardware (PII 400, 256mb ram, Cheetah HD, adaptec 2940, Intel NIC). Issue: Syslog seems to die (enter poll state) at undetermined times. At first I thought it was newsyslog related but I turned off newsyslog in cron and the problem continues. Hupping syslogd has no effect and I must kill it and restart to clear the poll state. I have searched the archives (pain in the neck without having the ability to search by date :^P ) and have not seen similar instances that have been answered. Question: Could some entry from one of my remote machines be killing syslogd? (I have looked at the entries in /var/log/messages that correspond to the times that cron dies/stops logging and nothing is out of the ordinary) There are no other cronjobs that correspond to the times that syslog stops... I would like to find out if anyone else has had this type of difficulty before I rebuild the system/replace files/at script to grep for the poll states, kill and restart syslogd... Thanks in advance. - Todd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message