[syslog-ng] 1.6.11 stops logging on Garbage Collect (Solaris 9)

[Nate Campi]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:19:42AM -0700, Kim Cary wrote:
> Our installation of syslog-ng writes to 3 pipes and a dozen files  
> from 2 IP sources.
> 
> About 2-3 times a week it will stop logging in 1-12 files. The last  
> record in these files will almost always coincide with a Garbage  
> Collect record in /var/log/syslog (which always continues to collect  
> records).
> 
> Solaris syslog is NOT running.
> Solaris logadm sends HUP to syslog-ng on any rotate.
> We tried TCP logging from some systems for a while, but its all UDP now.
> 
> Important to note, it may not be all files that stop receiving  
> records, or even all the files from a single source.
> 
> We need reliable logs. How do we begin to debug this issue?

This doesn't sound like your problem, but is worth mentioning just in
case: most of the times I had syslog-ng stop logging to files was
because I ran out of filehandles and had to set a higher limit for the
syslog-ng process.
-- 
Nate

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