[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 2.0.4 hang

[Geller, Sandor (IT)]

> Hi,
> 
> I've encountered a strange problem. I'm using syslog-ng 2.0.4 with
> a fairly basic setup, and syslog-ng hangs when it is reading from
> /proc/kmsg, but only right after boot and only on one of my machines,
> which is a RHEL AS3 machine.
> 
> It is reproducible, the host hangs on every boot as every process
> which tries to write to /dev/log gets blocked.
> 
> Has anyone seen such behaviour?

Replying to myself: adding log_fetch_limit(1) for the /proc/kmsg source
solved the issue.

Regards,

Sandor
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