[syslog-ng] syslog-ng on hp-ux

[Klaus Groenhoej]

Hi,

snip from: "man 2 read":

      When attempting to read from an empty pipe or FIFO:

           +  If no process has the pipe open for writing, read() will
              return 0 to indicate end-of-file.

           +  If some process has the pipe open for writing and O_NONBLOCK
              is set, read() will return -1 and set errnoto EAGAIN.

           +  If some process has the pipe open for writing and O_NONBLOCK
              is clear, read() will block until some data is written or the
              pipe is closed by all processes that had the pipe open for
              writing.

syslog-ng will open /dev/log  - try to read from /dev/log and will recive end-of-file.
syslog-ng closes /dev/log and open the file again - try to read from /dev/log and
recieve end-of-file - etc. etc.

-Klaus

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Balazs Scheidler" <bazsi@balabit.hu>
To: <syslog-ng@venus.terrasoft.hu>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng on hp-ux


> > Syslog-ng doesn't work with HP/UX named pipe /dev/log.
> > 
> > syslog-ng must open /dev/log with O_RDRW instead of O_READONLY.
> 
> why?
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