[syslog-ng] Delay writing to files

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 08:59 -0800, Paolo Supino wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> 1. I checked weather /proc/kmsg is being read by 2 processes. It isn't.
> The only process reading the file is syslog-ng (and there is only 1
> instance of syslog-ng running).
> 2. All systems that report to the syslog server have forward and
> backward resolving setup. Here is the output: 
> forward lookup: 
> # nslookup switch-01
> Server:         192.168.200.101
> Address:        192.168.200.101#53
> 
> Name:   switch-01.company.net
> Address: 192.168.63.1
> 
> backward lookup:
> # nslookup 192.168.63.1
> Server:         192.168.200.101
> Address:        192.168.200.101#53
> 
> 1.63.168.192.in-addr.arpa name = switch-01.company.net.
> 
> Everything looks OK ... 

I understand that your DNS is set up correctly I was only wondering
whether syslog-ng might block on DNS queries for some reason. I'm sure
syslog-ng is doing something, either it is buffering data (because of
sync) or is blocking on something.

-- 
Bazsi