[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.0.1 dies on reload with program() destination

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:54 +0200, Jan Rekorajski wrote:
> Sorry for possible double post, I sent the first from wrong email.
> 
> Hi,
> Syslog-ng 3.0.1 dies on reload (kill -HUP pid) when config file contains
> log { destination { program() } }  directive set. 100% repeatable.
> 
> Here are the relevant config lines:
> 
> destination d_sshguard  { program("/usr/sbin/sshguard -a 6"); };
> # A desperate experiment
> #destination d_sshguard  { program("read"); };
> 
> log { source(s_sys); filter(f_authpriv);        destination(d_sshguard); };
> 
> 
> From what I managed to find with strace/ltrace, syslog-ng kills the
> program, does not clear some data structures and then falls face down
> with sigsegv/term/ill trying to restart/reattach(?) to the program.
> 
> The exact same configuration works perfectly with version 2.0.10.
> 

Hm... I've just tried to reproduce this problem with current 3.0 HEAD
and also 3.0.1, but without success.

Can you show me a backtrace of the failing program? You can do it using:

gdb syslog-ng core
(gdb) bt


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Bazsi