Hi,
 
I recently converted our RedHat EL servers (Release 3 Update 6) form the sysklog package to syslog-ng. On some of the servers syslog-ng appears to be occasionally hanging, i.e. messages stop getting written to the various log files. This also has a knock on effect of stopping logins, cron jobs hanging, etc, presumably because they are waiting to write to a log file. I read in the archives that this can be caused by something else using /dev/log but there's no other syslogd or minilogd processes running and lsof gives the following:
 
COMMAND    PID USER   FD   TYPE     DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
syslog-ng 1384 root    5u  unix 0xf778c880      1703 /dev/log
syslog-ng 1384 root    6u  unix 0xf777e8c0      1715 /dev/log
I'm using the RedHat conf file bundled in the contribs directory that comes with the source code.
 
Any ideas would be welcome.
 
Thanks
 
Tony


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