[syslog-ng] program dies

[Jeff DiNisco]

that was it.  thank you.  I can't believe I didn't think of that.

--- janth at moldung.no wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:40:52AM -0700, Jeff DiNisco wrote:
> > I'm running syslog-ng on solaris 10.  I have a destination defined as - destination d_alert {
> > program("/usr/local/admin/syslog-ng/alert.bash"); }; 
> > 
> > when syslog-ng is started, these processes also start...
> > /bin/bash /usr/local/admin/syslog-ng/alert.bash
> > /bin/sh -c /usr/local/admin/syslog-ng/alert.bash
> > 
> > About an hour later, for no apparent reason, the 2 alert.bash processes die but the syslog-ng
> > process continues to run.  I've implemented a watchdog script to alert and restart syslog-ng
> when
> > they die.  It's interesting to note that they seem to die exactly 1 hour after being
> restarted.
> > 
> > command used to start syslog-ng -  /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -f /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng.conf
> >>
> > ${logfile} 2>&1
> > 
> > alert.bash script...
> > #!/bin/bash
> > 
> > export mailaddr=jeff at xxxxxx.com
> > 
> > while read input
> > do
> >   hostname=`echo ${input} |awk '{print $4}' |sed 's|/.*||'`
> >   program=`echo ${input} |awk '{print $5}' |sed 's|[[(].*||'`
> > 
> >   echo ${input} | mailx -s "${program} alert on ${hostname}" ${mailaddr}
> > done
> > 
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> What does set | grep TMOUT says?
> >From man bash(1):
> 
> TMOUT  If set to a value greater than zero, TMOUT is treated as the default timeout for the read
> builtin.  The select command terminates if input
>         does not arrive after TMOUT seconds when input is coming from a terminal.  In an
> interactive shell, the value is interpreted as the number
>         of seconds to wait for input after issuing the primary prompt.  Bash terminates after
> waiting for that number of seconds if input does not
>         arrive.
> 
> --
> Jan Thomas Moldung
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