[syslog-ng] program() destination in 1.9.6: respawning not automatic?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 13:32 -0500, Paul Krizak wrote:
> I built the latest stable copy of 1.9 (1.9.6) a few days ago and I'm 
> seeing some behavior that doesn't seem to jive with the documentation.
> 
> The docs say that the program() destination in 2.0 (which is presumably 
> what 1.9.X is preparing for) should respawn the program if it dies.
> 
> However, this doesn't seem to be the case; you must signal syslog-ng 
> with a HUP before it'll respawn the program.  Is this expected behavior? 
>   And if it is, is there some way to make syslog-ng respawn the program 
> immediately instead of waiting for a HUP signal?

Do you see something like this?

      msg_verbose("Child program exited, restarting",

you'll need to run syslog-ng in verbose mode to see this message.

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Bazsi