[syslog-ng] syslg-ng hangs on damnsmalllinux boot

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 12:53 +0100, Heiko Blume wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> telling from the process table there are no other logd's (see below).
> But i have to admit that i do not know how to check for
> the "/proc/kmsg" sources you mention. i haven't been into
> logging like this before :-)
> 
> however, removing the
> 
>      file("/proc/kmsg" log_prefix("kernel: "));
> 
> from the source has fixed the hanging problem.
> but why? i certainly don't want to miss any messages...

something else is reading /proc/kmsg in addition to syslog-ng, and in
this case, the one losing the race condition blocks, until the next
kernel message.

-- 
Bazsi