Re: stange error

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:30:12 +0100, Informatik.hu wrote:
 
> On 2011.01.23. 13:13, Camaleón wrote:

>> I read it as rsyslog daemon received a "hup" signal in the mode
>> "lightweight" (kinda soft-restart, maybe it was re-engaded on demand by
>> a script in logrotate :-?)
>>
>> Are you getting new entries in the rest of the logs ("/var/log/syslog",
>> etc...). "messages" log file is not very verbose in Debian.

> Yes, there is some new events in my syslog, so it means this message is
> by design?
> My old ETCH box, does not getting this message, thats why i asked You.
> (also using logrotate, logcheck, logwatch)

Let me check it in my squeeze...

root@debian:~# cat /var/log/messages* | grep lightweight
Jan 23 13:12:31 debian rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="869" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] rsyslogd was HUPed, type 'lightweight'.
Jan 18 12:04:20 debian rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="874" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] rsyslogd was HUPed, type 'lightweight'.
Jan 19 20:59:28 debian rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="865" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] rsyslogd was HUPed, type 'lightweight'.
Jan 22 13:05:52 debian rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="872" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] rsyslogd was HUPed, type 'lightweight'.
Jan 23 13:12:30 debian rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="869" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] rsyslogd was HUPed, type 'lightweight'.

Yes, it seems that message is normal :-)

Just ensure your rotated messages (messages.1, messages.2.gz, etc...) contain 
additional data.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón