hi rainer
unfortunately this is not a server i'm directly in charge of so we can't
really upgrade for while
(they will only upgrade as part of the planned upgrade for the whole server)
can you please elaborate on the cause of the problem so that maybe i can
figure out a temporary workaround?

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of matan monitz
> > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 3:51 PM
> > To: rsyslog-users
> > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog Text File Input Module losing seek?
> >
> > hello rainer
> > we are using  3.22.1-3 from rpm on rhel 5
>
> That's definitely too old. I maintain it when I am at it, but the fix went
> into v4+ so far. I suggest that you pull the latest v4-stable from git. If
> git doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll mail you a private tarball.
> I
> am just right now very busy (probably tomorrow as well, as I am writing a
> lot
> of new code in support for CEE).
>
> Rainer
>
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Rainer Gerhards
> > <[email protected]>wrote:
> >
> > > which version do you use? I have recently addressed such a problem...
> > >
> > > Rainer
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> > > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of matan monitz
> > > > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 2:45 PM
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > Subject: [rsyslog] rsyslog Text File Input Module losing seek?
> > > >
> > > > Hello all
> > > > we have a bind server writing and rotating logs on file system
> > > > (rotating
> > > > when log file reaches 10Mb).
> > > > we also have rsyslog configured with the text file input module
> > reading
> > > > the
> > > > file and sending it over UDP to another rsyslog server.
> > > > several times during the day the rsyslog on the bind machine starts
> > > > reading
> > > > the file from the top, causing a sudden high rate of duplicate and
> > old
> > > > events.
> > > > in an attempt to identify the problem:
> > > > 1.verified this using tcpdump to make sure the and saw the old logs
> > > > coming
> > > > down the wire to the rsyslog server
> > > > 2.made sure state files are correctly configured and are being
> > created
> > > > when
> > > > needed
> > > > 3.made sure the rsyslog is not crashing and restarting by
> > monitoring
> > > > the pid
> > > > googeling hasn't helped as well
> > > >
> > > > any ideas?
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