I did a check this morning and the pkill -HUP does stop the logging - if it is actually still working at that point in time.
I also noticed that the logging will just stop *without* seeing the HUP message. dmesg continues merrily, but nothing appears in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages. All very strange. 2009/8/10 Neil Wilson <n...@aldur.co.uk>: > No idea what's causing it. Mostly I see the restart message on boot > but sometimes I don't. > > I feel this is going to be one of those irritating bugs that's > difficult to track down... > > 2009/8/10 Michael Terry <michael.te...@canonical.com>: >> I tried to reproduce this with a 'sudo pkill -1 rsyslog'. I got the >> message in /var/log/syslog about a lightweight restart, but it kept >> logging messages. So I couldn't reproduce. >> >> Does a pkill -1 break rsyslog for you, Neil or Vajra? Do either of you >> know what triggered the HUP? >> >> -- >> [karmic] Messages not being sent to system logs >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407862 >> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >> of the bug. >> > > > > -- > Neil Wilson > -- Neil Wilson -- [karmic] Messages not being sent to system logs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs