[syslog-ng]Power fail restart

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:16:16AM -0400, Erik Ivanenko wrote:
> 
> 
> I am running version 1.5.13. All but 2 of 60 remote devices FAILED to
> reconnect when the power returned in Ontario. The cental logging host
> did not go off-line, as it was on emergency power.
> 
> I use the standard /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start scripts for the remote
> devices.  They are all Linux machines. After issuing HUP to the central
> host, 9 of 60 connections are working.
> 
> Running "snoop" shows that the remote daemons have stopped trying to
> connect. I thought that syslog-ng was supposed to reconnect after such
> events?  
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I can do to make these remote devices reconnect?
> Must I manually restart syslog-ng on each remote client?

not necessarily, though they were such bugs fixed during 1.5.x, I think you
should upgrade to 1.6.0rc3 which is more stable.

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Bazsi
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