On 2018/09/20 13:58, Joel Carnat wrote: > Hi, > > By default, syslog-ng uses /var/run/syslog.pid: > # grep pid /etc/rc.d/syslog_ng > daemon_flags="-p /var/run/syslog.pid" > > This interferes (during newsyslog) with syslogd which is also using this pid > file. > > One can use `rcctl set syslog_ng flags -p /var/run/syslog-ng.pid` to solve > this. > But wouldn't it be better to set another default pid file in > /etc/rc.d/syslog_ng ? > > Best regards. >
I think that might have originally been intentional, to make things easier for people using syslog-ng in place of syslogd. But that can't actually work with the syslog-ng version currently in ports (in OpenBSD 5.6+ the new fd-safe sendsyslog interface is used, syslog-ng didn't start supporting this until 3.14.1, ports has 3.12.1), so it probably does make sense to change this. Does it use a sane pid filename by default? If so then it might be best to leave the -p flag out from the rc script completely.
