[syslog-ng]syslog-ng stopped working yesterday

[Bill Nash]

Also, can you include the config portions that handle your logging to 
disk?

- billn

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Balazs Scheidler wrote:

> 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?
>
>