Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:05:53 +0200 Dominik George <n...@naturalnet.de> wrote: > Package: rsyslog > Version: 5.8.11-1+b1 > Severity: important > > We recently added the omysql backend to rsyslog to centralize all logging to > a MySQL database. > The link to the database was a bit flakey lately and a syslog client, slapd, > was producing tons > of log lines for debugging purposes. This lead to rsyslog staying behind with > logging for > nearly 30 minutes and apparently filling up all its buffers. That prevented > rsyslog from accepting > more logs, which even froze slapd (which is a bug in slapd as well, see > #689025). > > rsyslog should rather drop messages to a certain backend if it is not > available and keep on > logging to available backends or at least make this behaviour configurable so > a broken logging backend > can not freeze rsyslog. >
Is this still an issue with recent versions of rsyslog? If so, can you please share your rsyslog configuration. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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