On Sunday 13 April 2008, Dan wrote: >Has anyone experienced the following on Fedora 8? > >I have rsyslog logging to a PostgreSQL database. > >Every Sunday, rsyslog gets into a state where it stops working. This >appears to occur some time after log rotation, and log files are all >empty from about 4am sunday, up until such a time where I restart rsyslog. > >In addition, any running applications which have connections to the >/dev/log socket appear to hang until rsyslog is killed off and >restarted. Cron jobs also stop running. > >This morning there were a lot of hung sendmail and cron processes, and >probably others. Only once I stopped/killed and then restarted rsyslog >did these processes become unstuck. This is becoming the typical Sunday >procedure with my current rsyslog configuration. > >I have also tried various versions of the rsyslog packages from fedora, >with the same results with every package. > >Has anyone seen anything like this? > >Cheers, > >Dan I don't have any hung processes but I note that the messages log does seem incomplete: [root@coyote ~]# tail -fn40 /var/log/messages Apr 13 05:09:19 coyote rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="2.0.2" x-pid="1823" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] [x-configInfo udpReception="No" udpPort="514" tcpReception="No" tcpPort="0"] restart Then I restarted it using the service tool: Apr 13 07:08:49 coyote kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Apr 13 07:08:49 coyote kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Apr 13 07:08:50 coyote rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="2.0.2" x-pid="1823" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] exiting on signal 15. Apr 13 07:08:50 coyote rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="2.0.2" x-pid="18316" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] [x-configInfo udpReception="No" udpPort="514" tcpReception="No" tcpPort="0"] restart Apr 13 07:08:50 coyote kernel: rklogd 2.0.2, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Note the additional rklogd line of this manual restart. Is this normal? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) In the land of the dark the Ship of the Sun is driven by the Grateful Dead. -- Egyptian Book of the Dead
