[syslog-ng] syslog-ng exits when system time set backwards

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 15:31 -0400, Kirill Stepanchuk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve googled the mailing list, but could find any related threads. On
> FreeBSD, syslog-ng 1.6.8 exits when the system time is set to a value
> earlier than the previous value.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this before? Is there a fix or a
> configuration issue?
> 
>  
> 
> $ ps auxwww | grep syslog-ng
> 
> root        1040  0.0  0.1  1516  1208  ??  Ss   10:15AM
> 0:00.08 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng
> 
> kstepanchuk 6529  0.0  0.0  1568   980  p0  R+   10:38AM   0:00.00
> grep syslog-ng
> 
> $ sudo date 200501010000
> 
> Sat Jan  1 00:00:00 EST 2005
> 
> $ ps auxwww | grep syslog-ng
> 
> mfeeney     6533  0.0  0.0  1612   996  p0  S+   12:00AM   0:00.00
> grep syslog-ng

well, syslog-ng 1.6.8 is ancient history, you should be using 3.0
instead. For what it's worth: I don't know why it exits though. Can you


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Bazsi