[syslog-ng] Constant syslog-ng startup message

[ILLES, Marton]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 09:42 +1300, chris packham wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 15:56 -0400, srainville at videotron.ca wrote:
> > syslog-ng keeps logging the following message. I installed it using
> > the HEAD RPM for Linux RHEL4. Is there a problem with the startup, or
> > just a message that can be ignored?
> > 
> > Mar 26 15:30:16 testserver syslog-ng[22090]: syslog-ng starting up;
> > version='3.0.1+binpkg4'
> > Mar 26 15:30:18 testserver syslog-ng[22092]: syslog-ng starting up;
> > version='3.0.1+binpkg4'
> > Mar 26 15:30:20 testserver syslog-ng[22094]: syslog-ng starting up;
> > version='3.0.1+binpkg4'
> > Mar 26 15:30:21 testserver syslog-ng[22095]: syslog-ng starting up;
> > version='3.0.1+binpkg4'
> > Mar 26 15:30:22 testserver syslog-ng[22097]: syslog-ng starting up;
> > version='3.0.1+binpkg4'
> > Mar 26 15:30:23 testserver syslog-ng[22098]: syslog-ng starting up;
> > version='3.0.1+binpkg4'
> > Mar 26 15:30:24 testserver syslog-ng[22099]: syslog-ng starting up;
> > version='3.0.1+binpkg4'
> > Mar 26 15:30:25 testserver syslog-ng[22100]: syslog-ng starting up;
> > version='3.0.1+binpkg4'
> > Mar 26 15:30:26 testserver syslog-ng[22101]: syslog-ng starting up;
> > version='3.0.1+binpkg4'
> > Mar 26 15:30:28 testserver syslog-ng[22103]: syslog-ng starting up;
> > version='3.0.1+binpkg4'
> > Mar 26 15:30:29 testserver syslog-ng[22104]: syslog-ng starting up;
> > version='3.0.1+binpkg4'
> 
> That looks like either multiple instances of syslog-ng are being started
> or its being stopped and started multiple times ('ps | grep syslog-ng'
> should tell you which). 
> 
> Either way it's probably not good. At best its adding unnecessary system
> load, at worst its losing messages.
> 
> Does RHEL4 use upstart or some other special init system that tries to
> keep things running if they exit? You may see this kind of thing if
> there was an error in your config file which would cause syslog-ng to
> exit only to be re-started by init.
> 

Maybe it is started than it dies and the superviser restarts it. Can you
start it using strace?

M
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