On Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:50:27 +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > I got feedback that on a TCP log server the TCP connections from > the clients are spamming the log file. The log clients reconnect > at every SIGHUP. > > The easy fix is to write these accept and close messages with debug > priority, then they can be turned on in syslog.conf. Default is > off.
OK. > An alternative would be to keep the connections open at SIGHUP. > But that is inconistent to other log drains and would only work for > OpenBSD syslog clients. Personally, I think it makes sense to keep the TCP connections open if they are still present in the config file after SIGHUP. That's a more invasive change though. - todd
