[syslog-ng]Strang behaviour of syslog-ng (and my program)

Antai Ning aning@jetnet.ca
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:49:11 -0400


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RE: [syslog-ng]Strang behaviour of syslog-ng (and my =
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Hi Bazsi,

Thanks for your reply first of all!

I've never used strace but I'll try it.

Yes, my program is using buffer and actually that's = the first thing I checked. But I'm pretty sure it's not there.

This is somewhat related to pipe openning. If I make = sure syslog-ng opens the pipe before my program, then everything is OK. = The code in my program is something like this:

        .
        .
initializing
        .
        .
while(1)
{
        open = pipe       #block here until syslog-ng = open the pipe
        while(1)
        {
        =         select on the = pipe      #block here until the pipe is ready = for read or timeout (5 sec)
        =         next if = timeout
        =         last if other = side close the pipe       #jump out the = loop and try to open pipe again
        =        =20
        =         read and = process the message    #normal
        }
}
        =        =20
Bazsi, you see anything wrong here?

Thanks,

Andy    =         =         =          



-----Original Message-----
From: Balazs Scheidler [mailto:bazsi@balabit.hu]
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 10:59 AM
To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng]Strang behaviour of = syslog-ng (and my program)


On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:32:08AM -0400, Antai Ning = wrote:
> Hi Gents,

> I'm posting the question again because I really = need an answer for it,

> Thanks a lot,

can you check whether strace shows anything = insane?

are you using buffering in your perl program?

syslog-ng uses a read/write pipe, and writes messages = as soon as the pipe
becomes writable. if the pipe is not writable (as = indicated by poll),
messages are buffered in a fifo, whose size is = controlled by
log_fifo_size().

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