[syslog-ng] Running script for checking syslog-ng status

[Gergely Nagy]

"Henry Xu" <xkb.surfing at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi All,
> 	Does syslog-ng have a running script that check the syslog-ng
> running status?
> 	If it crashed or stopped running,this script can make sure to start
> a new syslog-ng process.
> 	This morning,the syslog-ng on my server crashed,and somehow resulted
> in the server halt.
> 	Thanks.

"syslog-ng-ctl stats" is the closest thing. Apart from that, you can
save the PID of syslog-ng to a pidfile, and verify that the PID is still
present, and if it belongs to syslog-ng (syslog-ng will by default, save
a pidfile, FYI).

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