I asked from the upstream author if this is known issue, and he said this: Ubuntu drops privileges, but their config is often not really up to that. Keep running as root for a test and check if the problem re-occurs. I guess not.
So I commented out the $PrivDropToUser and $PrivDropToGroup lines from /etc/rsyslog.conf and the problem disappeared. The next thing is to solve how the config should be made "up to" dropping privileges to avoid this issue. @William Hidden: Have you reported a separate bug for you problem? Could you try if running as root helps to your issues, too? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/672953 Title: rsyslog stops writing to fifo on HUP -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs