syslogd causes hangs
Sjoerd Mullender
sjoerd at acm.org
Wed Oct 8 08:30:19 UTC 2003
Terry R Linhardt wrote:
> Okay...I can be dumb about this. :)
>
> If I do: strace /sbin/syslogd -m 0 ...
>
> the strace exits after a second or so, although syslogd continues to
> run. Following is what strace captures before it exits.
> Does this help?:
look at line 32 of the trace:
> 32 clone(child_stack=0,
> flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCH LD,
> child_tidptr=0xbf58c7a8) = 2922
syslogd forks and the child continues while the parent exits.
Try giving the -d flag to syslogd to have it not fork.
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Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org>
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