[syslog-ng] what is the 'supervising syslog-ng' process?

[Zoltán Pallagi]

Hi,

syslog-ng has a supervisor process, that monitors the child, if it 
crashes, it automatically restarts it.
So, it is an absolut normal operation on your machines.

2010.03.04. 9:44 keltezéssel, Tim Edwards írta:
> We have syslog-ng-client-3.0.5-1.rhel5 installed on several machines.
> However on 2 of those Nagios has flagged that there's an extra process
> with the command 'supervising syslog-ng'.
>
>
> Both machine1 and machine2 are Scientific Linux 5.4 (a RHEL clone)
> x86_64 Xen virtual machines with the exact same syslog-ng.conf:
>
> [root at machine1 ~]# ps -ef | grep syslog-ng
> root     24891     1  0 09:26 ?        00:00:00 supervising syslog-ng
>
> root     24892 24891  0 09:26 ?        00:00:00
> /opt/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng --no-caps
>
> [root at machine2 ~]# ps -ef | grep syslog
> root      1718  1695  0 09:38 pts/0    00:00:00 grep syslog
> root      2137     1  0 Feb01 ?        00:00:09
> /opt/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng --no-caps
>
>
> Can someone explain what this 'supervising' process is?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim Edwards
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