[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.0.7 shows 2 daemons on restart

[Rakesh Rajasekharan]

Aplogies for creating soem confusion there by way of my pasting the o/p.
yes.. i just verifed and this now makes sense. But, I have noted something
differnet again.
The issue of 2 daemons is not reported during reboot of a system. Post
reboot , I only have one single syslog daemon running.
And the PID I have verified , it is different from the previous ones which
means this is a new daemon.
I have bundled the start adn stop commands into a script which i normally
use to start or stop and to which i have created links to the sysltem start
up and shutdown scripts on HPUX so, he same is used there as well.
Can someone help me understand this varied behaviour on restart.

Thanks in Advance.
Rakesh

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Sandor Geller <
Sandor.Geller at morganstanley.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Correct, from version 3 syslog-ng has a supervisor process which could
> get disabled using the --process-mode=background option.
>
> To the original poster: please don't mix the output of multiple ps
> commands, it just makes reading your mail more difficult. In your case
> PID 3634 is the syslog-ng supervisor process, PID 3635 is the actual
> syslog-ng daemon.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sandor
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Fekete Robert <frobert at balabit.hu> wrote:
> > Hi, around 3.0.x IIRC, syslog-ng gained a supervisor process that
> automatically
> > restarts syslog-ng if it crashes.
> >
> > I think that's why you see now two processes. You can check it by killing
> the
> > child process - it should respawn, or killing the parent process (should
> not
> > respawn).
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > On 03/09/2011 07:47 AM, Rakesh Rajasekharan wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> I have compiled syslog-ng 3.0.7 on an HP-UX machine. Now, when I try to
> restart,
> >> it shows 2 daemons.
> >> # /sbin/init.d/syslog_ng restart
> >> syslog-ng service starting.
> >> # ps -ef|grep -i syslog
> >> root 3635 3634 0 09:17:58 ? 0:00 /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/sbin/syslog-ng
> -f
> >> /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf -p /var/run/syslog-ng.pid
> >> root 3640# /sbin/init.d/syslog_ng restart
> >> syslog-ng service starting.
> >> # ps -ef|grep -i syslog
> >> *root 3635 3634 0 09:17:58 ? 0:00
> /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/sbin/syslog-ng -f
> >> /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf -p /var/run/syslog-ng.pid
> >> root 3640 2701 0 09:18:01 pts/0 0:00 grep -i syslog
> >> root 3634 1 0 09:17:58 ? 0:00 /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/sbin/syslog-ng -f
> >> /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf -p /var/run/syslog-ng.pid
> >>   2701 0 09:18:01 pts/0 0:00 grep -i syslog
> >> root 3634 1 0 09:17:58 ? 0:00 /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/sbin/syslog-ng -f
> >> /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf -p /var/run/syslog-ng.pid
> >> *
> >> **
> >> Is this soemthing expected . Please confirm.
> >> Thanks,
> >> Rakesh
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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