[syslog-ng]syslog-ng dies randomly on solaris

[Dave Johnson]

Ian, 

I can take another angle at this-- can you send me your syslog-ng.conf
file and an output of an `ldd syslog-ng` of the binary?

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:02:32 +0100, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:01 -0800, Ian Veach wrote:
> > Greetings -
> >
> > We're just chomping at the bit to switch to syslog-ng from the standard
> > syslog.  Although it sounds like plenty of solaris people are having
> > success, our testing is not going well.  Our configs are all great, but
> > syslog-ng just simply stops running at random times (sometimes an hour,
> > the last one 35 days) on my test machine (low volume except for
> > occasional load testing).  Can anyone give me (a neophyte in this arena)
> > any ideas on how to fix this?
> >
> > Ideally, I would like to solve the problem (or figure out what it is), but
> > am open to things like a cron to verify syslog-ng is running...Could try
> > to debug, but not great with truss, and for some reason syslog-ng cores
> > don't show much useful info (to me, a noob).
> >
> > Syslog-ng 1.6.5 and libol version required at the time
> >       standard compile for solaris (details available)
> > Solaris 9, recently patched
> 
> can you show the core file nevertheless? the best would be to compile
> both libol and syslog-ng with debug information (--enable-debug
> configure switch) let it run with ulimit -c unlimited and then try to
> analyze the core files using gdb
> 
> gdb -c /path/to/core.file
> (gdb) bt
> 
> --
> Bazsi
> 
> 
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