Re: syslog problem

[Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 17:15 terry white's cat, walking on the 
keyboard, wrote:
> ... ciao:
> : on "9-6-2006" "Luca Ferrari" writ:
> : the syslogd daemon crashes
>
>    at one time i had a similar problem with klogd.  the first thing i did
> was to determine "when" it 'had' stopped running.
>
>    in your case, i think it important to discover if the daemon has
> "been" stopped, or, as you say, "crashed".  i used cron to test for a pid
> every minute.  in my case, i noticed a specific time when the failure
> occurred.  that's a good thing to notice ...


I've found the problem: the daemon.log file was too big (and there's no rotate 
on it), thus the first application that tried to log on such file caused 
syslogd to crash.

Thanks,
Luca