Re: syslogd restarts randomly

2018-10-01 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-10-01, Tom Smyth wrote: > AFAIK it is just restarting to facilitate the rolling of logfiles... That's right, but ... >> Sep 26 10:00:07 syslogd: dropped 9 messages during initialization >> Sep 26 10:00:07 syslogd: restart >> Sep 26 16:38:44 syslogd: dropped 5 messages during initializ

Re: syslogd restarts randomly

2018-09-30 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello Bogdan, AFAIK it is just restarting to facilitate the rolling of logfiles... check out the manual page for the log file rotation setup in openBSD man newsyslog check out the config file for newsyslog.conf ... cat /etc/newsyslog.conf # $OpenBSD: newsyslog.conf,v 1.36 2016/12/27 09:17:5

syslogd restarts randomly

2018-09-30 Thread Bogdan Kulbida
Hi Everyone, I'm having hard time understanding what is going on with the syslogd on some of my servers. It restarts on a regular basis and that just looks suspicious to me. I'm using OpenBSD 6.3 (GENERIC.MP). Here is an output of the syslogd: Sep 26 07:00:01 syslogd: restart Sep 26 10:00:07 s