[syslog-ng]Apache to syslog-ng

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:55 -0600, Jason Stafford wrote:
> Howdy,
>  
> Would someone please shed some light on the correct way to get logs
> out of apache and into syslog-ng without causing the apache to crash?
> I'm currently using custom log and sending that via a pipe to logger.
> Howerver for some reason apache will just stop responding and stop
> handling requests.  To fix this i just restart syslog-ng and it starts
> working. I posted earlier with my config and someone recommend that i
> send it all via udp to a central server cause this might be related to
> the pipe. I have since done this and i did not fix the problem. What i
> really need is a way to get the logs out of apache wihtout using
> logger?

Are you sure syslog-ng is not blocking for a reason? A common problem is
that more than a single program reads /proc/kmsg which will block
sometimes in this case.

Try stracing the syslog-ng process when it does this and see which
system call it is in.

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Bazsi