[syslog-ng]1.4.11 fixes SIGHUP problems?

[William Yodlowsky]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:47:33PM -0500, jon@dumbo.pobox.com wrote:
> IMO, it should dump to STDOUT/ERR as well...much like apachectl restart.
> 
> apache says something like "config is broken, ignoring restart"
> 
> i've made changes to the config file before(with errors) never thinking there's a problem.
> logging continued normally, not error messages i could see.

I'm afraid I agree totally with this... I've done the same thing.


> not many people will want to have to check a log file after a restart, they may think
> "telling it to HUP, didn't report any errors, and my other logs are still there..."
> 
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:33:35AM -0600, John_Delisle@ceridian.ca wrote:
> | 
> | 
> | I'm not sure thats a bug, it may be a feature actually.  If you look at
> | /var/log/messages, theres an entry saying the new config is bad, and
> | syslog-ng will continue running with the old config.  This prevents lost
> | syslog messages.