[syslog-ng]syslog-ng 1.4.x troubles : 2nd post

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:33:47PM +0200, archi2k@altern.org wrote:
> Please CC me, I'm not subscribed to the list.
> 
> Okay, to try to isolate the problem shown on my previous post, here is what I did :
> 
> 
> <snip /etc/init.d/syslog-ng>
> case "$1" in
>   start)
>         echo -n "Starting system logging: syslog-ng"
>         #start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng
>         strace -f syslog-ng > /var/log/syslog-ng.strace 2>&1 & 
>         echo -n " klogd"
>         start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /sbin/klogd -- $KLOGD
>         echo "."
>         ;;
> </snip>
> 
> And guess what : when I run syslog-ng thru strace it works!! @#[|%!!  Ie when I boot the box syslog-ng is not blocked any more.
> 
> I finally found a way to make it actually work by not using start-stop-daemon :
> 
> <snip>
> #start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng
> #strace -f syslog-ng > /var/log/syslog-ng.strace 2>&1 &
> /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng
> </snip>

the problem is that you are reading kernel logs from /proc/kmsg and run
klogd at the same time.

the kernel indicates that /proc/kmsg is readable, syslog-ng reads and blocks
because klogd already fetched the message.

please either stop klogd, or remove the /proc/kmsg source from syslog-ng
configuration.

Nate, can you please add this question to the FAQ? As I see there's
something related, but it doesn't emphasize that klogd must not be running
while syslog-ng fetches messages:

"
          o

            I want to replace syslogd *and* klogd on my Linux box with syslog-ng.

            Use a source line like this in your conf file to read kernel messages, too.

source src { pipe("/proc/kmsg"); unix-stream("/dev/log"); internal(); };

          o
"

maybe a sentence:

Note: do not run klogd and syslog-ng fetching local kernel messages at the
same time. It may cause syslog-ng to block which makes all logging local
daemons unusable.


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