[syslog-ng]program destination prob ?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:05:34PM +0200, Thomas Ackermann wrote:
> hy!
> i'm using syslog-ng to send remote log messages over an stunnel to a log 
> server.
> everything's running quite fine, besides one little problem i have..
> 
> i'm starting the stunnel with
> program("/usr/sbin/stunnel -r 192.168.3.125:6543 -c");
> 
> when the stunnel is killed or quits because of a bad connection, 
> syslog-ng doesn't even bother 'bout trying to restart it.
> is that a wanted behaviour and, or, is there a way to gat syslog-ng to 
> respawn processes called with program() ?

no, currently this is the intended behaviour. try running a wrapper script
around stunnel, which restarts it if necessary.

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