[syslog-ng]syslog-ng restart: postfix/nqmgr logline missing on next received e-mail - bingo, solved!

Peter Bieringer pb@bieringer.de
Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:22:25 +0100


--On Thursday, February 13, 2003 03:08:10 PM +0100 Achim Gsell
<achim@cybercity.ch> wrote:

> On Thursday 13 February 2003 14:38, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> 
>> So this is a different issue. .... hmm... I've found the reason. libc
>> does reattempt sending messages provided you use a unix-dgram source.
>> 
>> sysklogd uses a unix-dgram source by default, thus I assume your
>> syslog-ng config uses unix-stream.
> 
> You are right!  With unix-dgram it works fine ...

Me to here on my clean system, postfix and crond are logging fine further
on even syslog-ng is restarted.

Thank you very very much!!!!

Looks like FAQ, doc and contrib/syslog2ng need to be updated.

        Peter
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