It is just logrotate doing its job. After moving the log file, logrotate must restart syslogd for it to create a new log file. Bill > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tib > Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 9:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] syslog problems > > > Recently I left a 'tail -f' on a few log files going and saw > some interesting > output. Can someone explain this and possibly how to fix it? > I'm stumped why > syslogd would restart 10 times in the space of three seconds. Anyone? > > ----- from the messages file ----- > Nov 12 04:02:11 unica syslogd 1.3-3: restart. > Nov 12 04:02:11 unica syslogd 1.3-3: restart. > Nov 12 04:02:13 unica syslogd 1.3-3: restart. > Nov 12 04:02:13 unica syslogd 1.3-3: restart. > Nov 12 04:02:13 unica syslogd 1.3-3: restart. > Nov 12 04:02:13 unica syslogd 1.3-3: restart. > Nov 12 04:02:14 unica syslogd 1.3-3: restart. > Nov 12 04:02:14 unica syslogd 1.3-3: restart. > ---------------------------------- > > --------not sure which log-------- > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:41 2000] [warn] child process 23126 did not > exit, sending > another SIGHUP > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:41 2000] [warn] child process 23127 did not > exit, sending > another SIGHUP > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 22659 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 22660 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 22661 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 22662 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 22663 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 22664 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 22672 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 22673 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 22675 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 22696 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 22722 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 22766 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 22767 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 22768 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 1983 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 1985 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 1986 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 18627 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 23126 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:42 2000] [warn] child process 23127 still > did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Sun Nov 12 04:06:47 2000] [notice] SIGHUP received. > Attempting to restart > ------------------------------------ > > >
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