[syslog-ng] program destination

[Bill Anderson]

On Jul 18, 2011, at 3:28 AM, Thomas Wollner wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> we are using syslog-ng version 3.1.3 (open source edition) on a debian  
> 6 system. Currently we switched from version 2 to version 3 and we  
> noticed the following change:
> 
> we are using sec.pl as a program destination to correlate and filter our logs.
> on version 2 syslog-ng was sending a term signal in case of a stop or  
> restart to programs/scripts invoked via program destination. on  
> version 3 the programs didnt receive the signals and still keep  
> running. in the admin / reference guide I see some options for the  
> program destination, but none for signal handling.
> 
> Is this the intended behaviour of syslog-ng v3? How can I tell  
> syslog-ng v3 to send signals to programs which are started by syslog-ng?

I've been running 3.1.3 on Lenny w/Python scripts and binaries w/o issue.


Cheers,
Bill

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Bill Anderson, RHCE
Linux Systems Engineer
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