On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:17:47PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote:
> djb has several logging options... lately I believe it is multilog(?) in
> the new daemontools package.
Indeed. And it's pretty triv to use too. The simplest is to replace
your 'splogger qmai' with something like:
multilog t n10 s5000000 /var/log/qmail
Make sure you have a /var/log/qmail directory and that's about it.
Of course if you want to go the whole hog and use svscan/supervise,
then it's a little different as you create a log/run script etc, but
the above is the simple way.
> > > We've heard this again and again. Any specifics?
> >
> > I've seen the syslog daemon simply die. With no explanation. Several times
> > on different boxes. I think this qualifies as being unreliable.
Indeed syslogd notoriously dies on Solaris 2.5 and 2.6 especially when
hit with multiple HUPqs at around the same time (which of course
happens quite a lot if you use multiple log rolling scripts as one is
almost forced to do on Solaris with that /usr/lib/newsyslog
abomination).
Regards.
