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

[Matthew Hall]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:49:08AM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> It was also brought to my attention, that syslog-ng has a built-in
> supervisor, that will restart it in case it crashes. This can be enabled
> by starting syslog-ng with the --process-mode=safe-background
> command-line argument.
> 
> (What do you know? I never knew this was there! One learns something new
> every day!)

Gergely,

I thought the supervisor was on by default. Am I mistaken to believe this?

When I run syslog-ng without that options I always get a "supervising syslog-ng" (the wonders of setproctitle) and a normal one with the launch options.

Matthew.