[syslog-ng] Problems with syslog-ng

[Sandor Geller]

Hi,

>> syslog-ng OSE has in-memory buffering only. The contents of the
>> buffers will get lost when syslog-ng stops or reinitialises itself
>> (when receiving a HUP signal for example). In contrast syslog-ng PE
>> has persistent on-disk buffering in addition to avoid losing logs.
>
> Can you confirm that a HUP will loose the buffers please? I was under the impression
> that a HUP *only* caused syslog-ng to close and reopen its source and destinations.

Well, I wrote this based on my partial (and unfortunately fading...)
knowledge of syslog-ng so obviously I could be wrong :) Hopefully
Bazsi will jump in and correct me when needed.

Regards,

Sandor