[syslog-ng]syslog-ng stopped working yesterday

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 10:30 +0100, Gorm J. Siiger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a wierd problem, yesterday around 14:00 CET syslog-ng just stops
> working. The daemon runs, but allmost nothing is writtes to the logs.
> 
> I have used syslog-ng for some years now, and it never let me down.
> 
> When running syslog-ng -dv the last things it tell me is: 
> 
> Objects alive: 203, garbage collected: 1
> AF_INET client connected from 80.63.205.142, port 3630
> io.c: Preparing fd 14 for reading
> 
> And then it stops logging, but seeing with tcpdump that i receive tons of
> syslog, and even local logging with "logger" doesn't work.
> 
> Installing a new syslog-ng on another machine does the same, which confuses
> me. 

syslog-ng probably blocks on something, maybe on a DNS query. can you
strace syslog-ng while it is blocked like this?

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Bazsi