On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Michael Chesterton <[email protected]> wrote: > If you haven't already, you could attach strace to syslogd and see what > it's up to, from memory it's strace -p <pid>
Good idea. >From looking at the man page, it's `strace -p<pid>` without a space. That would be very handy for stepping in when the problem occurs, rather than having to stab in the dark, setting up a test environment, hoping to trigger the bug. > also, (if you haven't already) you could try googling syslogd hanging > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/26/37 Interesting reading about the ctime() stuff. I'll definitely know if that's the problem, from looking at strace's output. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
