Package: rsyslog Version: 3.18.6-4 Severity: important Sometimes we see /dev/log disappear for a while when "rsyslog reload" is invoked, typically by logrotate. I've narrowed down steps to reproduce this bug:
1. Start with a standard lenny install with default syslog settings 2. Modify /etc/rsyslog.conf and uncomment out the following lines to enable TCP logging: #$ModLoad imtcp #$InputTCPServerRun 514 3. Restart or reload rsyslog so the TCP setting is in effect. 4. Put some logging load on rsyslog. This works nicely: while [ 1 ] ; do logger "Test" ; done 5. Call "/etc/init.d/rsyslog reload" in a loop with a short sleep in between. Watch for /dev/log not appearing very shortly after the reload. In my testing, I reloaded 1000 times with a 0.1s sleep in between, and 10 of the reloads resulted in /dev/log going away. /dev/log came back after exactly one minute in every one of those 10 times (I was no longer calling reload while waiting for /dev/log to reappear), but during that one minute nothing can write log messages because /dev/log is gone. Rsyslog appeared to still be listening on port 514, though since this test does not used TCP logging, I could not verify if logging to port 514 actually worked. I did not have any issues if TCP logging was disabled or if there was nothing being actively logged. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages rsyslog depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages rsyslog recommends: ii logrotate 3.7.1-5 Log rotation utility Versions of packages rsyslog suggests: ii rsyslog-doc 3.18.6-4 documentation for rsyslog pn rsyslog-mysql | rsyslog-pgsql <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
