Reloading syslog-ng's config is often done via a killall -HUP syslog-ng command, which also sends a signal to the supervisor. However, the supervisor did not handle said signal, thus it exited as is the default for it. To work around this issue, lets ignore SIGHUP inside the supervisor. Reported-by: Patrick Hemmer Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu> --- lib/gprocess.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/gprocess.c b/lib/gprocess.c index aaefbab..d68521d 100644 --- a/lib/gprocess.c +++ b/lib/gprocess.c @@ -1055,10 +1055,15 @@ g_process_perform_supervise(void) pid_t pid; gboolean first = TRUE, exited = FALSE; gchar proc_title[PROC_TITLE_SPACE]; + struct sigaction sa; g_snprintf(proc_title, PROC_TITLE_SPACE, "supervising %s", process_opts.name); g_process_setproctitle(proc_title); + memset(&sa, 0, sizeof(sa)); + sa.sa_handler = SIG_IGN; + sigaction(SIGHUP, &sa, NULL); + while (1) { if (pipe(init_result_pipe) != 0) -- 1.7.10