start hangs on my machines also, but if I do Ctrl+C with the original init script, rsyslog continues to work correctly.
I had to use the "start hack" I described on all el5 machines because I'm fairly certain that a reboot will leave most of them unreachable, hanging on rsyslog start, Best regards, Cristian Falcas On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:31 PM, AndyL <[email protected]> wrote: > > >I don't know who to blame for this exactly (killproc and daemon from > > /etc/init.d/functions or rsyslog only), but also stop fails sometimes and > > a > > restart left me with this : > > I think the fact that I can successfully stop and start any service on any > version of CentOS except rsyslog gives us a fair indication of where the > problem lies. > > > How I fixed it here: > >I replace the daemon call from the init script with this: > > > (kill -0 $(cat "${PIDFILE}")) &> /dev/null || $exec -i "${PIDFILE}" > > $SYSLOGD_OPTIONS </dev/null &>/dev/null & > > sleep 2 > > kill -0 $(cat "${PIDFILE}") > > > but because the process never forks, I get 2 instances (child and > parent), > > but everything seems to work correctly > > I too get two processes but the 'service rsyslog start' command still > hangs. > > Cheers > > Andy > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://rsyslog-users.1305293.n2.nabble.com/rsyslog-startup-problem-on-Cent-OS-5-tp7586023p7586073.html > Sent from the rsyslog-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > 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.
