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

[Heiko Blume]

hello,

thank you very much for your help! no more hangs...

i couldn't figure out what else may be listening, though.

regards, heiko

> 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.
>
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> Bazsi
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