[syslog-ng] 2 syslogng processes for the price of 1

[syslogng at feystorm.net]

What os are you running, and what command are you using to generate that 
output (ps with what args)?
Syslog-ng 3+ will fork itself off and the child becomes the real worker 
process while the parent is a monitor process so that if the child dies 
it can restart it. At least thats what its supposed to do. I've never 
had it work, but it doesnt crash so I dont care.

Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 3:47:53 PM
From: Manson, John <John.Manson at mail.house.gov>
To: 'syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu' <syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>
Subject: [syslog-ng] 2 syslogng processes for the price of 1
> Good Day,
>  
> I start syslog-ng, ver3.0.4, from /usr/local/sbin using the same 
> script I run with older versions of ng on other servers but this is 
> the first time I have seem 2 processes started.
> Ng is loading the correct conf file at /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng.conf 
> and is writing log messages to the correct log files, no duplicate 
> entries.
> Always 2 pids in sequence.
> If I kill the smaller pid, 3532 in this case, the ppid of 1 takes over 
> for 3532 and ng, 3533, runs along just fine.
> Help?
>  
> Thanks
>  
> root  3532     1   0 15:09:54 pts/2       0:00 
> /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -p /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.pid
> root  3533  3532   0 15:09:54 ?           0:00 
> /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -p /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.pid
>  
>  
> John Manson
> CAO/HIR/NI/Data-Communications | U.S. House of Representatives | 
> Washington, DC 20515
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