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

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 18:05 +0300, Lucky Y wrote:
> > >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 ?

Of course.

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Bazsi