Re: Sysklogd 'freezing' machine when remote server croaks.
<quote who="Mike Dresser">
> I've filed a bug against #22673, but wanted to know if anyone else has
> run into problems with sysklogd freezing a machine if a remote syslog
> server goes down. Just had to spend a few hours tracking that down,
> because for the first time in a year I had to restart syslogd, for the
> potato to woody change-over.
haven't had this problem, i just tried to trigger it. i have
a freebsd 4.6 machine acting as a syslog server(using syslog-ng)
and have about a dozen debian potato machines and half dozen
debian woody machines and a few suns etc logging to it, i killed
the syslog-ng and was able to ssh into 3 different systems, a potato,
a woody and a solaris machine with no delays.
all of the syslog "clients" are running normal syslog, not
syslog-ng, only the server has syslog-ng on it
and a couple weeks ago when i upgraded my syslog server from
freebsd 4.4 to 4.6 it had about 40minutes of downtime while
i troubleshooted some problems, and there was no problems
with the other servers then too.
are you using normal syslog-over-udp ? or you using tcp or
do you have any special configuration? all of my systems
are using udp.
nate
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