Question: the child tells the parent process via kill () when it is ready.
Otherwise, the parent waits -i guess- 5 minutes before it terminates.  May
be there is something that prevents kill from working properly (privilege
drop?).

Sent from phone, thus brief.
Am 07.08.2014 11:53 schrieb "AndyL" <[email protected]>:

> For those trying to get this working on CentOS 5, I have found a
> workaround.
>
> The problem is clearly an issue between the 'daemon' function and rsyslogd
> so I looked for alternatives to using daemon. I installed the 'daemonize'
> package from EPEL and, after some messing around with parameters, I found a
> combination that works.
>
> Install the daemonize package and change the line in
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/rsyslog that says:
>
> daemon --pidfile="${PIDFILE}" $exec -i "${PIDFILE}" $SYSLOGD_OPTIONS
>
> to:
>
> daemonize -p "${PIDFILE}" $exec -i "${PIDFILE}" -n $SYSLOGD_OPTIONS
>
> On my system at least start,stop and restart all work with that change in
> place.
>
> I know it doesn't solve the underlying problem, but at least it works!!
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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