[syslog-ng] FreeBSD

Scott McDermott mcdermot@questra.com
Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:34:43 -0400


Nate Campi on Thu  3/08 22:16 -0700:
> > The last leak I fixed in 1.4.5 was caused by UDP destinations, if
> > the receiving host was not accepting messages on the given port.
> > (e.g. ICMP destination unreachable is returned) If you don't use
> > udp() destinations it doesn't show up.
> 
> Actually, now that you mention it, the stable host isn't doing any TCP
> connections, but the unstable ones are doing TCP connections
> exclusively.
> 
> The TCP connections would seem to the culprit.

Simple TCP forwarding (no local logging) seems to work fine, if they are
only forwarding from UDP sources.

A syslog-ng process doing TCP receiving seems to leak, but I plan on
doing some testing to gather more data within a couple of weeks.