Either way completely hanging service restart on the start and not emitting exit signals to log files as well as the dodie message in place of the exit message seems a bit more complex than just a simple hang...
Especially since this behavior was previously un observed and reproduced on 3 different identical hosts including one with a 'base' install. On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 4:11 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Nick Syslog wrote: > > I've upgraded my VMWare based hosts to 8.2.2 recently and have had some >> weird phenomena that I can't seemingly explain from the previous >> installation...specifically: >> >> OS: RHEL 6.3 >> -Starting/stopping the service using "service rsyslog restart" hangs >> unless >> a sleep is inserted between the stop/start execution in the init. >> > > remember that the stop signal does not instantly kill rsyslog, it just > sends it a message asking it to shutdown gracefully, not corrupting > anything in the meantime. This means that rsylog works to flush the > messages it has in queues, close files cleanly, etc. There is a timeout in > the rsyslog config that tells it that if it hasn't finished after X > seconds, abandon the remaining queue messages and just close things. > > If the start happens while rsyslog is still in the process of shutting > down, it finds that there is already a pidfile in place (meaning that the > process is either still running, or crashed) and it asks the user if it > should go ahead and start or not (because if it is already running, having > two copies manipulating the same files will cause "interesting" results) > > David Lang > > The >> service appears to still start but the message "OK" is never released back >> to the cli leaving the user to ctrl-c to exit. >> >> -Messages for "exit signal 15" (normal shutdown messages) have disappeared >> completely leaving only the 'start' messages in their place and in some >> cases the message "DoDie Called." appears immediately prior to a start >> event. >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >> What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >> NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad >> of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you >> DON'T LIKE THAT. >> >> _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
