[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 1.3.3 on FreeBSD 3-STABLE

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 07:56:38PM +0100, Lowkrantz, Goran wrote:
> 
> There seems to be somthing wrong with the forking in the new version. It
> never goes deamon.
> 
> Here are the truss lists from 1.3.1 and 1.3.4 resp.

I'm currently downloading FreeBSD, so I can test this. Under Linux it works
o.k.

> Any ideas or pointers where to look?

syslog-ng goes to background the following way:

parent:
read configuration
if config syntactically correct then fork(); wait for SIGTERM signal

child:
initialize configuration (open sockets etc.)
if successful; close fds 0, 1, 2, become a session leader, send SIGTERM signal to parent

You can find all of this in main.c

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