[syslog-ng] 60 second delay when log rotates, can this be avoided?

[K K]

On 3/12/07, Michael Toy <mtoy at liveops.com> wrote:
> I have a log which is received over TCP and is being written to a
> local file name which changes (with syslog ng macros) once per hour.

Can you post to the list with:

1) The version of syslog-ng.
2) The OS and version where the syslog-ng listener runs.
3) Your syslog-ng.conf, or at least as much as you are willing to share.

> I am also sending that same stream to a program.
>
> When the log rotates, all data seems to stop flowing for exactly 60
> seconds, both to the log file and to program.

This doesn't sound right, unless you are doing something odd with
syslog-ng tunables.

Kevin