[PLUG] Syslog Stops: Why?

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Jul 2 16:04:45 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> I don't have any strong suspicions. It could be lack of disk space. Perhaps 
> it was a corrupted PID file. If syslogd is disappearing, you might try adding 
> cron job that checks for its existence every few minutes:
>
>   pgrep syslogd >/dev/null || echo no syslogd at $(date)

   Thanks, Paul. I'll do that. Plenty of disk space in all partitions. This
is all new. Happened the first time a week ago last Friday night (empty mail
log Saturday morning), and again this past Saturday night.

Rich

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