[syslog-ng]Problems with PID file

[Balazs Scheidler]

> we use syslog-ng in a large cluster of some online services.
> however we do encounter problems with the pid-file handling.
> 
> i start syslog-ng as
> 
> syslog-ng --pidfile=/var/run/syslog-ng.pid --cfgfile=/usr/global/etc/syslog-ng.conf
> 
> and its running fine.
> 
> 
> yesterday i did:
> # ps auxw| grep syslog-ng
> root      5366  ...syslog-ng --pidfile=/var/run/syslog-ng.pid...
> # cat /var/run/syslog-ng.pid
> 5366
> 
> today i did:
> # ps auxw| grep syslog-ng
> root      18357  ...syslog-ng --pidfile=/var/run/syslog-ng.pid...
> # cat /var/run/syslog-ng.pid
> 5366
> 
> 
> so for some mysterious reasons
> 	a) syslog-ng restarts (maybe some cron job to logrotate the
> 			systems syslog)
> 	b) the pid in /var/run/syslog-ng.pid  does not get updated
> 
> syslog-ng is running here on Tru64 4.0 alpha.

is syslog-ng running as root? it may not have all the privileges to create
the pidfile. pidfile is created only if syslog-ng is not started with -d.

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