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

[Tim Edwards]

Thanks, however we're seeing it enabled on some machines and not others.
What's the setting to enable or disable it? As I showed below I have 2
identical machines, where one has it enabled and one not.

Tim

On 04/03/10 20:18, Zoltán Pallagi wrote:
> 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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