[syslog-ng] program() doesn't restart if it dies

Hari Sekhon hpsekhon at googlemail.com
Mon Oct 9 12:30:43 CEST 2006


thanks, that does work and you're right, it is less intrusive so I've 
changed my script to do that instead...

-h

Hari Sekhon



Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 10:01 +0100, Hari Sekhon wrote:
>   
>> Matt Zagrabelny wrote: 
>>     
>>> i believe i have read that 2.0 is supposed to restart the program if it
>>> dies, 1.6 does not, to my knowledge.
>>>
>>>   
>>> what version of syslog-ng are you running?
>>>       
>> Ok then, I've got syslog-ng 1.6.9. I guess it will be worth the
>> upgrade to 2.0 at some point when it becomes very solid. 
>>
>> In the meantime I wrote a quick script to test the programs are alive
>> and restart syslog-ng if one of them dies, which is good enough and
>> gets the job done so I'm ok with that for now.
>>     
>
> A reload should be fine too, and is less intrusive.
>
>   
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