[syslog-ng]syslog-ng dies

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:48:54PM +0100, Longina Przybyszewska wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:18:14PM +0100, Longina Przybyszewska wrote:
> > > hi,
> > > my syslog-ng daemon dies unexpectedly.
> > > There is a lot of following messages in the log:
> > >
> > > salieri syslog-ng[28199]: STATS: dropped 0
> > >
> > > No other signs of fail.
> >
> > it is not a sign of failure. syslog-ng reports that it dropped this amount
> > of messages since the last STATS message.
> >
> > which version are you running? can you create a backtrace of the crash?
> 
> syslog-ng 1.5.24
> 
> what you mean by "create a backtrace of the crash" - I checked log file
> and there is no other messages from syslog-ng than 'STATS: dropped 0'.
> 
> The most prabably it died after massiv restart of syslogd on all our
> Linxes - as these are the last messages in syslog
> ===
> ...
> Jan  5 04:02:00 ulrica syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> ...
> ==

attach gdb to the process, reproduce the crash and issue a 'bt' command.

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