[syslog-ng] runaway programs started by syslog-ng

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 10:59 -0700, Dev Man wrote:
>  
> Hi,
>  
> We have experienced cases of syslog-ng apparently launching multiple
> instances of the same program unexpectedly, causing the machine to
> become unusable.  Some of the launched processes can end up defunct,
> but not all appeared to be when we checked the running processes.
>  
> Isn't syslog-ng only supposed to start a program if it was terminated?
>  
> In one case, we were seeing a constant stream of "duplicate stats
> counter" messages like:
> syslog.1:Oct 26 06:27:10 in-mta syslog-ng[29833]: Duplicate stats
> counter; counter='program(/home/readlog/readlog.php)'
>  
> One machine was using syslog-ng version 1.9.11 and another version
> 2.0rc1.

2.0.x (and 1.9.x which was development versions for 2.0) restart
program() destinations by default. I'll add a switch to disable that
behaviour as it is hardwired at the moment.

-- 
Bazsi