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Syslogd bug: Too many open files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jos Vos)
Fri Nov 15 06:37:27 1996
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:35:36 +0100
From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
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Hi,
The syslogd in Red Hat 3.0.3 (sysklogd package) seems to have a bug that
shows up when you frequently send a SIGHUP signal. It then says "Too
many open files" after a while (I turned on debugging, added tracing, etc).
I guess it doesn't close its old logfiles or whatever. Before continuing
my debugging actions, has anybody already solved this bug? Is it solved
in Red Hat 4.0? Please mail me the appropriate patch.
It's easy reproducable. Add some line (like "kern.info /var/log/testlog")
to /etc/syslog.conf, then execute:
while true
do
mv -f /var/log/testlog /var/log/testlog2
kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`
sleep 1
ls -l /var/log/testlog
done
And after 10 seconds or so the testlog file is not created anymore.
Thanks.
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