Thanks, however we're seeing it enabled on some machines and not others. What's the setting to enable or disable it? As I showed below I have 2 identical machines, where one has it enabled and one not. Tim On 04/03/10 20:18, Zoltán Pallagi wrote:

Hi,

syslog-ng has a supervisor process, that monitors the child, if it crashes, it automatically restarts it. So, it is an absolut normal operation on your machines.

2010.03.04. 9:44 keltezéssel, Tim Edwards írta:

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We have syslog-ng-client-3.0.5-1.rhel5 installed on several machines. However on 2 of those Nagios has flagged that there's an extra process with the command 'supervising syslog-ng'.

Both machine1 and machine2 are Scientific Linux 5.4 (a RHEL clone) x86_64 Xen virtual machines with the exact same syslog-ng.conf:

[root@machine1 ~]# ps -ef | grep syslog-ng root 24891 1 0 09:26 ? 00:00:00 supervising syslog-ng

root 24892 24891 0 09:26 ? 00:00:00 /opt/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng --no-caps

[root@machine2 ~]# ps -ef | grep syslog root 1718 1695 0 09:38 pts/0 00:00:00 grep syslog root 2137 1 0 Feb01 ? 00:00:09 /opt/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng --no-caps

Can someone explain what this 'supervising' process is?

Thanks

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