[PLUG] Syslog Stops: Why?

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> In my experience, those symptoms are due to the log files being rotated
> out from under syslogd and klogd. That is, the log files are rotated but
> syslogd doesn't receive a HUP, signaling that it should close its file
> descriptors and re-open files.

Paul,

   What might cause the behavior of the log file rotator to change? I've not
made any changes to the system for months. That's why I find this puzzling.

   When the logging stopped, I grep'd the process list for syslogd and it was
not there.

Thanks,

Rich

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