Re: [rsyslog] outchannel blocking

2011-10-28 Thread Michael Hale
It seems that rsyslog was not handling the params to savelog as I would have expected. /usr/bin/savelog -pc 3 /var/log/messages ended up being /usr/bin/savelog '-pc 3 /var/log/messages', which is not a file that exists. Also /var/log needed to be owned by the PrivDropToUser. FWIW strace -fp rsy

Re: [rsyslog] outchannel blocking

2011-10-28 Thread Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade
On Oct 28, 2011, at 9:07 AM, Michael Hale wrote: > I'm running on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS without SELinux and rsyslog-5.6.5. > Just for grins I disabled PrivDropToUser and PrivDropToGroup so > rsyslog is running as root, but that configuration is still unable to > rotate the logfiles. I'll try updating t

Re: [rsyslog] outchannel blocking

2011-10-28 Thread Michael Hale
yslog@lists.adiscon.com > Betreff: [rsyslog] outchannel blocking > > Hi I am attempting to use outchannel to determisticly control the size > of my log files. However, when my log file reaches the limit rsyslog > simply blocks. Here is my configuration: > > $outchannel o_messages, /va

Re: [rsyslog] outchannel blocking

2011-10-28 Thread Tim Eifler
. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: rsyslog-boun...@lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-boun...@lists.adiscon.com] Im Auftrag von Michael Hale Gesendet: Freitag, 28. Oktober 2011 07:26 An: rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com Betreff: [rsyslog] outchannel blocking Hi I am attempting to use outchannel to

[rsyslog] outchannel blocking

2011-10-27 Thread Michael Hale
Hi I am attempting to use outchannel to determisticly control the size of my log files. However, when my log file reaches the limit rsyslog simply blocks. Here is my configuration: $outchannel o_messages, /var/log/messages, 3000, /usr/bin/savelog -pc 3 /var/log/messages *.* $o_messages I captured