[syslog-ng] syslog-ng does not resume log when disk is full at first, and then disk space available

Bill Nash billn at billn.net
Thu Feb 21 10:40:00 CET 2008


If it happens frequently, I would suggest perhaps an hourly crontab of 
killall -1 syslog.

- billn

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Andrej Lobovski wrote:

>
> Hi.
>
> I have a problem, with syslog-ng 2.0.0-1etch1 on debian 4. It is like this:
>
> - syslog-ng fills /var/log/syslog with messages
> - then /var partition becomes full and I get "No space left on device (28)" error written in /var/log/syslog (tail -f on this file), which is expected
> - then I make some disk space available  on /var partition, BUT syslog-ng does not resume writing in /var/log/syslog at all
>
> Am I missing any options in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf ?
>
> Thank you very much
>
>
> Andrej Podgorsek
>
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