On Mon, 20 May 1996, Lukas Nellen wrote: > >>>>> "G" == Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > G> The bug is in syslogd - the last line of the /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd > G> script reads "/etc/init.d/sysklogd reload". Presumably this > G> UNDOCUMENTED reload command has the same effect as sending a SIGHUP to > G> syslogd. Except it doesn't. > > This is related to another bug reported (can't find the number right > now) in that start-stop-daemon cannot read the pid of syslogd from the > pid file. This manifests itself also during shutdown - the K-links for > syslogd fail to kill syslogd. Something seems to be wrong with the way > that syslogd writes its pid file.
Very wrong? Yes and no. The problem was that syslogd wrote its pid file as syslog.pid (no 'd'). It's been fixed in sysklogd-1.3-3. Christian
