On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:49:09PM +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote: > `fuser -u /dev/log` reveals that indeed, syslogd listens on /dev/log. > > Funny thing is, if I restart syslogd, and do things that write to the > log, it works fine. I can see the log entries coming through in syslog, > and it's all good. Just after a few hours, it conks out and starts > hanging.
Last time I saw something similar it was on our syslog host. ie many servers were logging to it. The problem occurred where some of the servers didn't have reverse DNS and syslogd was hanging trying to perform reverse lookups. Cheers, John > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- John Blog http://www.inodes.org/blog OLPC Friends http://olpcfriends.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
