Re: latest sysklogd broken?

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Wed 14 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Thomas Lakofski wrote:
> > > 
> > > Seems that the latest sysklogd package breaks sendmail's (and cron's, just
> > > checked) logging to syslog -- it works for a few minutes, and then no more
> > > logs.  I don't know if this is universal (only checked 2 daemons), but it
> > > looks like it.
> > 
> > What do you mean by "break"?  If you restart syslogd you have to restart
> > some other programs as well (squid, teergrube, inn, named come to my
> > mind.)
> 
> Can you explain this?  This doesn't sound very "normal" to me.

Sure.  Many programs open the socket to syslogd and never re-open
it.  Thus whenever you restart the syslogd (contrary to SIGHUP' it).
These files will log into nowhereland, i.e. the console.

> > Unix is user friendly ...  It's just picky about it's friends.
> 
> To be picky....  "it's" should be "its" :-)  Otherwise it says
> "about it is friends" ("it's" is short for "it is").

Whoops.  Indeed.

Regards,

	Joey

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