[syslog-ng] 60 second delay when log rotates, can this be avoided?

Michael Toy mtoy at liveops.com
Mon Mar 12 23:25:34 CET 2007


I am sorry.
I looked at this problem off and on for a couple of days, came in  
this morning not thinking clearly, and sent my message.
After a cup of coffee and a little better thinking I discovered that  
the 60 pause is in the data source.

On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:17 PM, K K wrote:

> On 3/12/07, Michael Toy <mtoy at liveops.com> wrote:
>> I have a log which is received over TCP and is being written to a
>> local file name which changes (with syslog ng macros) once per hour.
>
> Can you post to the list with:
>
> 1) The version of syslog-ng.
> 2) The OS and version where the syslog-ng listener runs.
> 3) Your syslog-ng.conf, or at least as much as you are willing to  
> share.
>
>> I am also sending that same stream to a program.
>>
>> When the log rotates, all data seems to stop flowing for exactly 60
>> seconds, both to the log file and to program.
>
> This doesn't sound right, unless you are doing something odd with
> syslog-ng tunables.
>
> Kevin
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