[syslog-ng] supervisor not restarting a failed daemon process

[Balazs Scheidler]

Strange, indeed. The supervisor gives up if the restarted daemon exits for some reason. Eg. If there's an initialization error it gives up. Any indication in the logs?

Evan Rempel <erempel at uvic.ca> wrote:

>We are sing the log line
>
>supervise/syslog-ng[27221]: Daemon exited due to a deadlock/signal/failure, restarting; exitcode='11'
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>
>and it looks like it should restart, but instead of restarting,
>the supervisor terminates and then no syslog-ng process is running.
>
>Is this a bug in the supervisor?
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