syslogd Hang very often

[gajula]

Hi All,

Syslogd hangs very frequently, and i can not find any reason for this ?

any leads ?

Regards,
Gajula

[Avinash20]

How did you found out that the syslogd daemon was hung ?

[gajula]

We have Script in Crontab which keeps checking for the syslogd for the status.

sorry " my statement should have been syslogd keep getting killed/stoped"

Regards,

[Laurent Menase]

try a tusc -f -k when restarting syslogd,
you will get the root cause, - may be a SYGSEGV

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

Also make sure the syslogd can reach all destinations in the /etc/syslog.conf

For instance, if a directory doesn't exist where syslogd has to write/create a log file, it might crash. Or if a log destination is a pipe that does some strange things the daemon is not expecting.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

By far the most common reason for syslogd hanging is that you filled up /var

Once /var is filled, syslogd will hang, and won't come back to life until you send a HUP signal to it, even if you've gone on to clear down space in /var.

So monitor the free space in /var

HTH

Duncan