[syslog-ng] Re: Syslog logging failure only at boot (Mac OS X)

[Orth, Alan]

Jeremy, 

Great suggestion... here's what I came up with and it's been working out awesome. ;)


[root at server: /Library/StartupItems/syslog-ng]# ls -l
total 16
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  135 17 Feb 09:32 StartupParameters.plist
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  444 17 Feb 09:45 syslog-ng
[root at server: /Library/StartupItems/syslog-ng]# cat StartupParameters.plist 
{
        Description             = "syslog-ng";
        Provides                = ("Logging");
        Requires                = ("Resolver");
        Uses                    = ("Disks");
        OrderPreference = "Early";
}
[root at server: /Library/StartupItems/syslog-ng]# cat syslog-ng 
#!/bin/sh

##
# syslog-ng logging daemon
##

. /etc/rc.common

StartService ()
{
        ConsoleMessage "Starting syslog-ng"
        /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -f /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf -p /var/run/syslog-ng.pid
}

StopService ()
{
        ConsoleMessage "Stopping syslog-ng"
        kill `cat /var/run/syslog-ng.pid`

}

RestartService ()
{
        ConsoleMessage "Restarting syslog-ng"
                StopService
                StartService
}

RunService "$1"




-- 
Alan Orth
Upward Bound - Systems Administrator
User Services - Field Technician
California State University, Chico
x6000



-----Original Message-----
From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu on behalf of Jeremy Mates
Sent: Wed 2/15/2006 8:15 PM
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
Subject: [syslog-ng] Re: Syslog logging failure only at boot (Mac OS X)
 
* Orth, Alan <AOrth at exchange.csuchico.edu>
> I've got three Mac OS X Panther servers running syslog-ng, and they
> run it very well. The only problem I have is when I reboot the servers
> syslog-ng starts from rc but fails to start logging. It's running, but
> it's not logging. I have to kill it and run it manually and then it
> runs. It's like it's choking on something by coming up too early in
> the boot process...?

Try creating a custom /Library/StartupItems entry for syslog-ng, and set
the StartupParameters.plist to require the Resolver, but use a high
OrderPreference to start loggin as soon as possible. For examples, see:

grep -r Requires /System/Library/StartupItems

On Tiger, launchd could also be used to manage syslog-ng.

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