[ILUG] syslog lockup

[John P. Looney]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 02:37:18PM -0000, Kenn Humborg mentioned:
> My working theory is that syslogging started blocking for some
> reason, thus stalling anything that wanted to log anything (which
> stalls named, anything with tcpwrappers, mail, news, etc).

 Can't see that happening. Syslog is supposed to be non-blocking. It's a
fire & forget type of mechanism. At least, when I'm logging loads of
things, and syslog hasn't had a chance to write them to disk, my program
keeps going..

Kate

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