[syslog-ng] Problems with syslog-ng use over a redireted port inside an SSH s ession

[Balazs Scheidler]

> I'm using syslog-ng over redirected ports inside an SSH 
> channel and whenever I HUP syslog-ng, the SSH channel 
> closes.
> 
> This appears to be a problem with syslog-ng, as if I 
> kill -KILL syslog-ng, the channel remains in place.
> 
> I copy logs over the channel using a perl script.  This
> also may be suspect of course..  The channel seems to close 
> when the script writes to the (possibly disrupted tcp) 
> socket.  If I don't write to the socket, the channel stays up..  
> I use the IO::Socket method $socket->can_write to attempt 
> to find out if the socket is still writable but this does not 
> show any problems but the channel dies anyway.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this problem?

Maybe you should try to handle the SIGPIPE signal in your perl script?
though SIGPIPE should occur only on output, reading from a broken socket
should result in an EPIPE to be returned.

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