From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:53:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-daemon: fix for rotating logs
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804282153290.19187@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <20080428204323.GA22815@cuci.nl>

Hi,

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

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> >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?

It seems that this happens, yes.

Ciao,
Dscho