Re: [PATCH] git-daemon: fix for rotating logs

From: Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl>
Date: Apr 28, 2008, 20:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20080428204323.GA22815@cuci.nl>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804282052050.19187@eeepc-johanness>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

>since you seem to be very new to this list: we really appreciate a 
>Reply-to-all here.

I see. I normally consider that bad form (maybe my age shows ;-); but if people insist here, no problem.

>On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:

>> >> I have no idea, but other programs must have the same problem.  I 
>> >> should

>So do you have any ideas what is happening there?  It seems that after 
>logrotate does its thing, syslog() is stuck in the close() call.

Erm, just so I understand the problem:
- git-daemon is configured to use syslog(3) to log
- git-daemon uses openlog(3)
- git-daemon logs happily for a while
- rotatelog rotates logfiles in /var/log and communicates with syslogd
  to make sure syslogd starts new logfiles in /var/log
- And then git-daemon hangs on which system/library call?

-- 
Sincerely,                                                          srb@cuci.nl
           Stephen R. van den Berg.