[syslog-ng] Re: question regarding program name logs

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Mon Oct 9 13:20:00 CEST 2006


On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 12:30 +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> 
> > > I would really like to release 2.0.0. But if your findings indeed
> > > turn out to be a bug in syslog-ng that'd prevent me from doing so.
> > > So helping me to track this down in a timely manner would be
> > > appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> > An important question relating this: Does anyone else experience the
> > same problem?
> 
> For the avoidance of doubt, I'm still using 2.0.rc1 with your patch of
> 04 Sep 2006 12:18:46 but I'm only using local logging.  Most of my log
> messages are from sendmail and a number of sendmail milters, and it's
> quite common for them to produce a few thousand log messages per second
> although messages at that rate would be written direct to a file - just
> a small subset of them is piped to a script for storage in our database.
> 
> I haven't noticed any problem with missing messages.  If this were a
> problem for us I'd have expected someone here to have noticed by now,
> although we haven't looked for the issue specifically.

The problem is that Justin says the problem first appeared with 2.0rc3
and 2.0rc2 is fine. However I can't see how the changes between 2.0rc2
and rc3 would cause something like this. 

-- 
Bazsi



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