[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 1.5.17 and tcp-keep-alive not working

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 12:16 +0200, Olaf Hoyer wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 17:32 +0200, Olaf Hoyer wrote:
> >> Hallo!
> > tcp-keep-alive enables the SO_KEEPALIVE socket option, thus sends TCP
> > keepalive packets form time to time, and indicates a broken connection
> > when those packets are not properly acked. So it basically detects IP
> > connectivity without actually sending messages.
> 
> 
> Ahh, ok. makes sense. But how do I solve my problem, that, whenever the 
> syslog-ng on the loghost has to be restarted or other problems, that I 
> have to manually restart the syslog-ng on the client?
> 
> There are some scenarios, where on the loghost the syslog-ng does not 
> only get a SIGHUP, but might die and needs to be restarted, some admin 
> or startscript does a full stop/start etc.
> 
> So in that case it would be fine if the client can upon detection of a 
> terminated tcp connection try to re-establish it, therefore avoiding the 
> manual restart of syslog-ng on the client side.
> 
> How can this be solved?

This is how it works. syslog-ng automatically reconnects if the
connection is broken. 1.5.17 might not be perfect in this regard
however, this functionality had some bugs in the past. (1.5.17 is a
development release, 1.6.x is stable series)

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Bazsi