[syslog-ng] suppressing pidfile and control socket for syslog-ng 3.0

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 11:23 -0700, Denis Laplante wrote:
> To clarify my question about suppressing PID and control socket in syslog-ng version 3.0:
> I don't want the error message to be suppressed by having the file successfully created in
> syslog-ng's favourite location, I want to suppress opening the 2 files .
> 
> I might want multiple syslog-ng processes running simultaneously,
> for example a test instance to run without interfering with production instances.
> 
> In the case of PID file, I could perhaps specify "--pidfile /dev/null" ; is there a chance that
> the target file might get deleted or have permissions changed?
> A couple of minor complaints for this option:
> Option --pidfile does not handle relative directories (unlike syslog-ng.conf) .
> Option -P responds with "Error parsing command line arguments: Unknown option -P".
> 

Sometimes the pidfile is being deleted, thus I do not recommend
passing /dev/null as the name of the pidfile.

As I see the short argument for --pidfile is small -p and not -P (it is
case sensitive)

I don't see why it wouldn't support relative paths, except that
syslog-ng might change its current directory when going into the
background.

Why don't you pass two different file names for --pidfile for your two
instances?

Also, there are currently other things that syslog-ng which might clash
if you want to run two instances:
  1) persistent config file (--persist-file)
  2) disk buffer files (--qdisk-dir)

But otherwise it should work perfectly fine if you run two instances of
it.

> > Message: 3 Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 10:51:20 +0200 (CEST) 
> > From: bugzilla at bugzilla.balabit.com 
> > Subject: [syslog-ng] [Bug 43] syslog-ng 2.1.4 consumes all CPU when processing "source file" 
> > Comment #4 from Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu> 2009-05-04 10:51:21 
> > [...]
> >>> > > can you try 3.0 if it fixes your problem? 
> >> > Yes, 3.0.1 on Solaris-8 fixes this problem.  
> > [...]
> > > How do I suppress pidfile and/or control socket? 
> >> > > Error opening control socket, bind() failed; error='Permission denied (13)', socket='/local/var/run/syslog-ng.ctl'
> > This is a different issue, you should probably create /local/var/run/ directory with appropriate permissions.
> 
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