I'm actually no longer the maintainer of the port, but if you check sockstat, you will notice the second process is the one that is actually listening to the network, etc:
# ps auxww|grep syslog root 29196 0.0 0.0 5320 2172 ?? I 8:40AM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -p /var/run/syslog.pid root 29197 0.0 0.0 5320 2432 ?? Ss 8:40AM 0:00.04 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -p /var/run/syslog.pid # sockstat|grep syslog root syslog-ng 29197 3 dgram /var/run/log root syslog-ng 29197 5 stream /var/db/syslog-ng.ctl root syslog-ng 29197 6 dgram /var/run/logpriv root syslog-ng 29197 7 udp4 *:514 *:* My guess is that this is by design. In fact, I've checked syslog-ng on a Linux machine (gasp) and it also runs two processes: root 30648 0.0 0.0 29428 868 ? S 04:02 0:00 supervising syslog-ng root 30649 0.0 0.0 35984 2404 ? Ss 04:02 0:06 /opt/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng --no-caps -Vince On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:06:40 +0200, Marin Atanasov wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Damian Gerow wrote: Marin Atanasov wrote: : I've noticed that when I start syslog-ng3 daemon it starts two processes. I : haven't seen this when running syslog-ng. : : Here are the processes: : : root 554 0.0 0.1 5320 2092 ?? I 4:46PM 0:00.00 : /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -p /var/run/syslog.pid : root 555 0.0 0.1 5320 2456 ?? Ss 4:46PM 0:00.02 : /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -p /var/run/syslog.pid : : I was wondering why it actually start two (identical?) processes? Anyone has : an idea? Is this normal? What does "ps -j | grep syslog-ng" show you? It's possible 554 is spawning 555. Hi, You were right - syslog-ng3 is spawing the second process. Here's the output, after I've restarted syslog-ng3. The PIDs are 1013 and 1014, and 1013 is spawning 1014. # ps axuw | sed -n -e '1p' -e '/syslog/p' USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 1013 0.0 0.1 5320 2280 ?? I 5:26PM 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -p /var/run/syslog-ng.pid root 1014 0.0 0.1 5320 2588 ?? Ss 5:26PM 0:06.20 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -p /var/run/syslog-ng.pid # ps jaxuw | sed -n -e '1p' -e '/1014/p' USER PID PPID PGID SID JOBC STAT TT TIME COMMAND %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS STARTED root 1014 1013 1014 1014 0 Ss ?? 0:06.20 /usr/local/sbin/ 0.0 0.1 5320 2588 5:26PM I've CCed the maintainer of the port, so if he's available he could explain better. Regards, Marin -- Marin Atanasov Nikolov dnaeon AT gmail DOT com daemon AT unix-heaven DOT org Links: ------ [1] mailto:dge...@afflictions.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
