Am 29.07.2010 10:46, schrieb Rainer Gerhards:
> This sounds like intended behavior. When an action fails (pipe fails when
> nobody reads and it is tried to write to it), rsyslog retries the configured
> number of times and then suspends the action for the configured period (at
> least I think it is configurable, you need to look up the details). Only
> after this period the action is retried. If it fails again, it is
> re-suspended, but this time with a longer suspension period. This is done so
> that rsyslog does not spent a lot of time on actions known to be failing.

So you say, if i wait long enough the messages should receive the end of the 
pipe?

Are there some related debug printouts i can search for?

Can you give some hints to the related configuration parameters (URL or 
keyword). Unfortunately the manual is not very helpful here.

> From what you wrote, I think your use case would probably better be served by
> omprog, but I may be wrong. If you think about this route, you need to know
> that someone requested the functionality, but was never seen when it was done
> ;) So the module is only barely tested.

Same wish. Where can i read more about omprog?

Regards,
Steffen

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