Syslog-ng stops working after logroate run
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I'm having trouble on one of my three pfsense boxes with syslog-ng stopping processing logfiles after the logrotate run. I have it configured to monitor three suricate eve.json file and forward the output to a remote syslog server. But after the logrotate run no more messages are sent. fsfat shows that it still has the eve.json files open, but truss just has it spinning:
_umtx_op(0x80301f080,UMTX_OP_MUTEX_WAIT,0x0,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0) _umtx_op(0x80301f080,UMTX_OP_MUTEX_WAIT,0x0,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0) _umtx_op(0x80301f080,UMTX_OP_MUTEX_WAIT,0x0,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0) _umtx_op(0x80301f080,UMTX_OP_MUTEX_WAIT,0x0,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0) _umtx_op(0x80301f080,UMTX_OP_MUTEX_WAKE2,0x0,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0) _umtx_op(0x80301f080,UMTX_OP_MUTEX_WAIT,0x0,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0) _umtx_op(0x80301f080,UMTX_OP_MUTEX_WAKE2,0x0,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0)
If I restart syslog-ng it works again.
Nothing in /var/syslog-ng/default.log, last message is just a statistics message:
Dec 15 23:45:14 inferno syslog-ng[89458]: Log statistics; processed='destination(d_tcp)=632984', processed='center(received)=633084', processed='source(eve_pub)=725', processed='center(queued)=633084', queued='global(scratch_buffers_count)=0', processed='src.none()=0', stamp='src.none()=0', processed='global(payload_reallocs)=164', processed='global(sdata_updates)=0', processed='source(_DEFAULT)=100', dropped='dst.network(d_tcp#0,tcp,loghost.cora.nwra.com:514)=0', processed='dst.network(d_tcp#0,tcp,loghost.cora.nwra.com:514)=632984', queued='dst.network(d_tcp#0,tcp,loghost.cora.nwra.com:514)=0', written='dst.network(d_tcp#0,tcp,loghost.cora.nwra.com:514)=632977', processed='src.internal(_DEFAULT#0)=100', stamp='src.internal(_DEFAULT#0)=1513406412', processed='source(eve_lan)=241383', queued='global(scratch_buffers_bytes)=0', processed='source(eve_dmz)=390876', processed='destination(_DEFAULT)=100', processed='global(internal_queue_length)=0', processed='global(msg_clones)=0' Dec 15 23:55:14 inferno syslog-ng[89458]: Log statistics; processed='destination(d_tcp)=636239', processed='center(received)=636340', processed='source(eve_pub)=725', processed='center(queued)=636340', queued='global(scratch_buffers_count)=0', processed='src.none()=0', stamp='src.none()=0', processed='global(payload_reallocs)=166', processed='global(sdata_updates)=0', processed='source(_DEFAULT)=101', dropped='dst.network(d_tcp#0,tcp,loghost.cora.nwra.com:514)=0', processed='dst.network(d_tcp#0,tcp,loghost.cora.nwra.com:514)=636239', queued='dst.network(d_tcp#0,tcp,loghost.cora.nwra.com:514)=0', written='dst.network(d_tcp#0,tcp,loghost.cora.nwra.com:514)=636232', processed='src.internal(_DEFAULT#0)=101', stamp='src.internal(_DEFAULT#0)=1513406714', processed='source(eve_lan)=241383', queued='global(scratch_buffers_bytes)=0', processed='source(eve_dmz)=394131', processed='destination(_DEFAULT)=101', processed='global(internal_queue_length)=0', processed='global(msg_clones)=0'
syslog-ng sysutils 1.14
syslog-ng-3.11.1_1
logrotate-3.9.2
pfsense 2.4.2-RELEASE
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