Juha Koho wrote:
> Package: rsyslog
> Version: 3.18.5-1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: causes serious data loss
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have noticed that rsyslog randomly crashes with remote logging 
> (client) enabled. This happens almost once a day and all log messages 
> are lost until rsyslog is started again. I don't know if this is related 
> to remote logging but all my other installations with no remote logging 
> work fine.
> 
> Normally there is nothing special in the log files when rsyslog crashes 
> and I have not been able to find out the cause. Today I noticed the 
> following:
> 

Could you try to run rsyslog in debug mode:
rsyslogd -c 3 -d


> *** remote-logging.conf
> $WorkDirectory /var/log/work  # default location for work (spool) files
> 
> $ActionQueueType LinkedList   # use asynchronous processing
> $ActionQueueFileName srvrfwd  # set file name, also enables disk mode
> $ActionResumeRetryCount -1    # infinite retries on insert failure
> $ActionQueueSaveOnShutdown on # save in-memory data if rsyslog shuts down

Do you still get the crashes, if you comment out the $Action* and $WorkDirectory
directives?

Michael

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