Re: [gentoo-user] syslogd hibernating

[Michael]

On Friday, 15 January 2021 15:23:34 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday, 15 January 2021 15:08:15 GMT n952162 wrote:
> > On 1/15/21 10:24 AM, Michael wrote:
> > > On Friday, 15 January 2021 08:47:18 GMT n952162 wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> can anyone explain this?
> > >>
> > >> I noticed today (15. January) that the
> > >> /var/log/{messages,kern.log,etc.}
> > >> files on a box were last touched on 22. November.
> > >>
> > >> sysklogd was in the rc-open /started/ state and was running.
> > >>
> > >> The configuration file, /etc/syslog.conf matches completely that file
> > >> on
> > >> another machine of mine, where the logs are properly updated.
> > >>
> > >> /etc/syslog.d/ was empty on both machines.
> > >>
> > >> I sent the process a HUP signal, as follows
> > >>
> > >> sudo kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/syslogd.pid )
> > >>
> > >> and all the log files were immediately updated and reporting.
> > >>
> > >> I rebooted my machine, and the log files are untouched, it is again
> > >> hibernating.
> > >
> > > Do you get something like this on your system?
> > >
> > > $ rc-update -s -v | grep syslog
> > >
> > >              syslog-ng |      default
> > >
> > > and,
> > >
> > > $ rc-service -v syslog-ng status
> > >
> > >   * Executing: /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh
> > >   /etc/init.d/
> > >
> > > syslog-ng status
> > >
> > >   * status: started
> >
> > $ rc-service -v syslog-ng status
> >
> >   * rc-service: service `syslog-ng' does not exist
> >
> > $ rc-service -v syslog status
> >
> >   * rc-service: service `syslog' does not exist
> >
> > $ rc-service -v syslogd status
> >
> >   * rc-service: service `syslogd' does not exist
> >
> > $ rc-service -v sysklogd status
> >
> >   * Executing: /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh
> >
> > /etc/init.d/sysklogd status
> >
> >   * status: started
> >
> > $ rc-update -s -v | grep syslog
> >
> > $ rc-update -s -v | grep sysklog
> >
> >               sysklogd |      default                    sysinit
> >
> > I ran that as a script on a machine where the logs are properly updated:
> >
> > 01~>bash -x  /tmp/test
> > + rc-service -v syslog-ng status
> >
> >   * rc-service: service `syslog-ng' does not exist
> >
> > + rc-service -v syslog status
> >
> >   * rc-service: service `syslog' does not exist
> >
> > + rc-service -v syslogd status
> >
> >   * rc-service: service `syslogd' does not exist
> >
> > + rc-service -v sysklogd status
> >
> >   * Executing: /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh
> >
> > /etc/init.d/sysklogd status
> >
> >   * status: started
> >
> > + rc-update -s -v
> > + grep syslog
> > + rc-update -s -v
> > + grep sysklog
> >
> >               sysklogd |      default
>
> Substitute your syslog program's name for syslog-ng. Michael did say
> "something like."

Yes, quite, other log daemons are available.  :-)

It seems your PC on which sysklogd works as expected has its rc script only on 
'default' runlevel, rather than default +sysinit.  I don't know if sysinit is 
required.  If you remove sysinit and restart sysklogd from a terminal does it 
spew out any errors?