Martin Schulze wrote:
> > My syslog.conf contains:
> >
> > # I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual
> > # console I usually leave idle.
> > kern.*;user.*;local2.*;auth.*;daemon.*;mail.*;news.crit;
> > news.err;news.notice;*.=debug;*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;cron.none
> > -/dev/tty8
> >
> > (Line wrap is just in this posting; in fact `news.crit;' and
> > `news.err' have no spaces in between, and cron.none is followed by a
> > tab not a space.)
> >
> > Every night my system goes down for backups; this involves switching
> > to a runlevel where not many daemons are running, doing the backup,
> > and then switching back. syslogd is kept running; it is not restarted
> > on the runlevel changes, because I only have S links for it in all the
> > runlevels in question.
> >
> > During the backup I can see that syslog is still working properly, and
> > logging to tty8 - `logger' can be used to show this, and named
> > periodically logs some guff which I can see.
> >
> > However, when the backup is complete the system switches back to a
> > normal multiuser runlevel. After this runlevel change syslogd has for
> > some unknown reason decided not to write to tty8 any more. I have to
> > send it a SIGHUP to get it to start writing there again.
> >
> > There are no other processes which do anything to tty8, to my
> > knowledge.
>
> Is this still the case? We've found a bug that caused syslogd to
> write into wrong files under some race conditions. This was fixed in
> 1.3-18 and I suppose this also solves your problem. Could you close
> the bug if you agree?
Ian,
there have been many improvements and bugfixes to syslogd since then.
Do you mind trying the current CVS version and see if the bug still
exists? If not, checking the current version in etch may be helpful
as well.
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/infodrom login
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/infodrom co sysklogd
Adding the debian/ directory from the Debian package should work fine.
Regards,
Joey
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