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

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:54 -0600, syslogng at feystorm.net wrote:
> 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.

And you can control this using the --background-mode command line
option.
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Bazsi