Any news on this problem? I doubt that rsyslogd.dpkg-new is an issue here. After a reboot the pid file is pointing to the valid rsyslogd, and yet the problem comes up.
Using systemd on Jessie I have the impression that the problem became worse. For several weeks now I saw that rsyslog stopped logging completely after the weekly rotation. Sample: # ls -lrt /var/log : : -rw-r----- 1 root adm 14071915 Aug 6 00:42 syslog.1 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 12288 Aug 6 00:42 . drwxr-xr-x 2 zabbix zabbix 4096 Aug 6 00:43 zabbix-agent -rw-r----- 1 root adm 8309 Aug 6 00:55 mail.err -rw-r----- 1 root adm 102868 Aug 6 01:00 cron.log -rw-r----- 1 root adm 5104542 Aug 6 01:03 auth.log -rw-r----- 1 root adm 21989 Aug 6 01:03 mail.warn -rw-r----- 1 root adm 68535545 Aug 6 01:03 mail.log -rw-r----- 1 root adm 68494266 Aug 6 01:03 mail.info -rw-r----- 1 root adm 137943 Aug 6 01:03 daemon.log -rw-r----- 1 root adm 17979 Aug 6 01:03 messages -rw-r----- 1 root adm 307977 Aug 6 04:15 syslog -rw-r----- 1 root adm 3394 Aug 6 04:15 kern.log drwxr-xr-x 4 news news 4096 Aug 6 04:15 news -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 337920 Aug 6 18:32 wtmp -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 1898876 Aug 6 18:32 lastlog # Please note that there are no newer "xyz.1" files anymore. This is a highly painful problem. Every helpful comment is highly appreciated. Regards Harri
