On 10/14/2010 11:25 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On 10/14/2010 11:06 AM, Glenn Stone wrote: >> You guys ever seen RHEL4's syslogd just hang inexplicably? RHEL4.8, mysql >> server, the only oddball thing is we've got a third-party app using syslog's >> standard "local6" facility to log to a file on an OCFS filesystem. A >> bog-standard "service syslogd restart" restores functionality quickly and >> without complaint or trace in the logs, just "restart successful"... > >> Clues? Google-fu was less than useful... > >> -- Glenn > > No clue, other than to disable the third-party app for a period of time > sufficient to place blame upon it if the freezing does not re-occur. > Not really helpful, I know. >
Glenn, you may want to try using strace(1) on the syslogd process. That often yields some valuable clue. -- Mark D. Foster <[email protected]> http://mark.foster.cc/ | http://www.freegeekseattle.org/
