Is broken. # /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart System logger service is not running. Starting System logger service.....................................[ FAIL ] syslogd: Already running. # /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog status syslogd (pid 1300) is running... # /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog stop System logger service is not running. # /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart System logger service is not running. Starting System logger service.....................................[ FAIL ] syslogd: Already running.
I've traced it to the following: # killall syslogd # syslogd -m 0; echo $? zsh: terminated syslogd -m 0 143 # killall syslogd # syslogd -m 0; echo $? 0 # killall syslogd # syslogd -m 0; echo $? 0 # killall syslogd # syslogd -m 0; echo $? 0 # killall syslogd # syslogd -m 0; echo $? zsh: terminated syslogd -m 0 143 but I couldn't find the rule. In every case syslogd HAS started. strace says: open("/var/run/syslogd.pid", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) brk(0x8074000) = 0x8074000 fork() = 1436 --- SIGTERM (Terminated) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGTERM +++ for 'broken' start, and: open("/var/run/syslogd.pid", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) brk(0x807c000) = 0x807c000 fork() = 1477 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x804bad0, [TERM], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x46ef4718}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 nanosleep({300, 0}, 0xbc38ea64) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) --- SIGTERM (Terminated) @ 0 (0) --- exit_group(0) = ? for good one. It looks like some race for me. -d Turns on debug mode. Using this the daemon will not proceed a fork(2) to set itself in the background, but opposite to that And with -d always returns 0. -- GoTaR <priv0.onet.pl->gotar> http://vfmg.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en