On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Risto Vaarandi <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 06/20/2013 11:31 AM, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:49 PM, David Lang<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>>  On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
>>>
>>>   I have just checked the code and that is not intentional. I may have
>>>
>>>> overlooked something, as omprog was originally writen to a user request,
>>>> but that users disappeared when it was done and nobody else reported
>>>> much
>>>> on it. I think this is the right solution for external programs, and so
>>>> I
>>>> would be very happy to look into problems that the module may have.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I know that a restart of rsyslog will kill the program specified,
>>>
>>
>>
>> it doesn't actively kill it, but the program will receive end-of-file on
>> it's input.
>>
>>
>>  will a HUP kill and restart the program?
>>>
>>>
>>>  no
>>
>
> It is slightly off-topic, but since SEC was mentioned in this thread, then
> the current version will actually not terminate on EOF on pipe. It will
> terminate either on TERM from parent, or with a help of a special rule that
> would call exit(0) on no input. Since this is not very convenient for
> connecting SEC to rsyslog via memory-based pipe, the new version of SEC
> (currently ready and under testing) will have better support for receiving
> input over a pipe from rsyslog.
>

would it help if I add support to send SIGTERM? As of rsyslog policies, I
can ony do that in the devel, which means 7.5 branch.

Rainer

> kind regards,
> risto
>
>
>>
>>  Will rsyslog detect if the program exits and restart it?
>>>
>>>
>>>  yes
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>  David Lang
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