Monday, October 01, 2018

Re: syslogd restarts randomly

On 2018-10-01, Tom Smyth <tom.smyth@wirelessconnect.eu> wrote:
> AFAIK it is just restarting to facilitate the rolling of logfiles...

That's right, but ...

>> Sep 26 10:00:07 <IP> syslogd: dropped 9 messages during initialization
>> Sep 26 10:00:07 <IP> syslogd: restart
>> Sep 26 16:38:44 <IP> syslogd: dropped 5 messages during initialization
>> Sep 26 16:38:44 <IP> syslogd: restart
>> Sep 27 14:00:01 <IP> syslogd: dropped 9 messages during initialization
>> Sep 27 14:00:01 <IP> syslogd: restart

this doesn't normally happen. What are the contents of syslog.conf?
That might give some clues.

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