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Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:38, Ed Grimm wrote: |
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>>On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko wrote: |
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>>>Guys, |
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>>>just thought I should mention this. |
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>>>if you setup a syslog-ng server that binds to an interface and listens |
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>>>to collect incoming logs, at the next reboot it will fail to do so. I |
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>>>believe this issue is due to the order of execution of the init.d |
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>>>initialization scripts, since syslog-ng is started before the net.ethX |
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>>>scripts are executed. The exim would not start following the failure |
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>>>of the syslog-ng. |
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>>My experience is, this is actually unpredictable - net.ethX does not |
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>>provide 'net', and so whether syslog-ng (or, for that matter, any other |
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>>syslog service) starts up before or after the network is established is |
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>>anyone's guess. Given the total number of places it can start up on a |
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>>typical system, I would guess that it probably usually starts after the |
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>>network has initialized. |
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> Syslog-ng should, like iptables, bind to an interface even if it is not up. |
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> There are reasons to start the logger as soon as possible. Alternatively you |
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> could signal syslog-ng to reload itself again just before exim loads. |
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> Paul |
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I know that the logger should be started early, also instead of indicating it in |
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exim init script, i have done it in net.ethX , after the interface is brought up. |
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Paul, do you guys have any plans to switch networking initialisation from |
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ifconfig/route/arp etc. to iproute2 suite? |
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Respectfully, |
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Konstantin V. Gavrilenko |
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