[syslog-ng] io.c: bind_inet_socket() bind failed Address already inuse

Lucky Y ylucki at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 17:05:08 CEST 2008


> >We use syslog-ng 1.6.12 in RHEL4.
> >As part of our system testing we restart syslog-ng 150 times in a loop
> >along with other services in the server.
> >
> >syslog-ng fails to come up 3/4 times with the error :
> >"io.c: bind_inet_socket() bind failed 192.168.128.1:601
>> Address already in use".

>How do you restart syslog-ng? It takes some time to close sources/
>destinations and there is a chance that the new syslog-ng instance
>tries to bind to the same address the not-yet-stopped instance
>still uses.

Does syslog-ng use SO_REUSEADDR option ?


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