[syslog-ng]Can't background syslog-ng

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:40:28AM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm trying to get syslog-ng-1.5.10 up under a Linux system running on a
> powerpc.  I can compile without errors and if I run:
> 	#syslog-ng -F
> 	syslog-ng version ` starting
> 	7
> 
> so that syslog-ng doesn't background itself it works fine.  When I try
> to back ground it though it fails:
> 	#syslog-ng -d
> 	io.c: Preparing fd 268600320 for io.c: Preparing fd 0 for reading
> 	syslog-ng version ` starting
> 	7gc_mark: Marking object of class '8!' (1)
> 	!’ųąSegmentation fault
> 
> Has anyone else come across this?  I straced syslog-ng and it complained
> about "Inappropriate ioctl for device" but I'm not sure which device
> it's trying to manipulate.  
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated and if anyone else is running
> syslog-ng on a PPC Linux system it'd be nice that it is possible.

I received a patch which fixes a powerpc related problem. I forward it to
the list in my next message.

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Bazsi
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