Is it necessarily syslog-ng itself?
I suggest that you check the pid of syslog every day - if the pid changes then you know syslog-ng was restarted. Joe. -----Original Message----- From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Karlis Repsons Sent: 14 December 2009 17:44 To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu Cc: Balazs Scheidler Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] supervise/syslog-ng exits On Monday 14 December 2009 07:07:37 Balazs Scheidler wrote:
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 19:11 +0000, Kārlis Repsons wrote:
People,
I wonder why is there some two messages like this in errors log each day: supervise/syslog-ng[28806]: Daemon exited gracefully, not restarting; exitcode='0'
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What are the possible reasons and what should be done?
something has stopped syslog-ng. if it is intended, nothing needs to be done, if it isn't, then you need to find out what stops syslog-ng.
the exitcode of 0 means that it was an intentional stop, not an abort or a segfault. Is it necessarily syslog-ng itself? I have a problematic errors reporting script connected to syslog-ng as a destination, maybe it exits and causes this? Otherwise I wouldn't like this a lot, because just a minute ago was "exit 0", but when I look, syslog-ng is working just fine... And no stop/start of syslog-ng is logged. And that script WAS restarted. Ok, at this point, I presume, its that script, which causes it...
So, please, take a look at this script: #!/bin/bash tmpp="/tmp/crashmail-pipe" if [[ ! -p "$tmpp" ]] then umask u=rwx,go= mkfifo "$tmpp" fi while read -r line do ( echo -en "From:crashmail@host\nTo:root@host\nSubject:" >> "$tmpp" && echo "$line" | cut -c 1-100 >> "$tmpp" && echo "$line" >> "$tmpp" ) & cat "$tmpp" | sendmail root@host if [[ $? -ne 0 ]] then exit 1 fi done Well, ok, its not doing very well, for example I can't understand how comes, I receive an output like: No Subject From: root <root@host> To: undisclosed-recipients: Date: Today 17:20:02 Dec 13 17:10:01 host2 supervise/syslog-ng[9735]: Daemon exited gracefully, not restarting; exitcod Dec 13 17:10:01 host2 supervise/syslog-ng[9735]: Daemon exited gracefully, not restarting; exitcode='0' From:crashmail@host To:root@host Subject: I wonder... Maybe you have some suggestions how should I do better? Write a C code and collect messages for some time before disposal?!