MS hangs, unkillable process

[Tony Finch]

"Desai, Jason" <jase at SENSIS.COM> wrote:
>
>I've found (at least with syslog-ng on Debian) that I need to restart
>MailScanner when I rotate my syslogs.  Otherwise MailScanner does not log
>again until it restarts.

This is either a bug in perl's Sys::Syslog or in syslog-ng or both. The
code in libc re-connects to the logging socket if an attempt to log fails,
but the perl version doesn't.  Standard syslogd doesn't close the logging
socket when it re-initializes; I guess that this isn't true for syslog-ng.

Tony.
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