i believe i have read that 2.0 is supposed to restart the program if it
dies, 1.6 does not, to my knowledge.
what version of syslog-ng are you running?
Ok then, I've got syslog-ng 1.6.9. I guess it will be worth the upgrade
to 2.0 at some point when it becomes very solid.
In the meantime I wrote a quick script to test the programs are alive
and restart syslog-ng if one of them dies, which is good enough and
gets the job done so I'm ok with that for now.