RE: Error messages from syslogd

 
> In addition to the "restart" message, there is also
> the
> "exiting with signal X", when you kill it. Generally,
> in cases of rotation (on Debian at least), you should
> see the "exiting" followed by the restart, but if
> someone kills it directly, you will not:

Yes, I've been a bit confused as to why I'm not seeing an exit message; I'll
have to dig into that at some point.

> * Syslogd on OpenBSD (exiting and restarting): 
> 
> Dec 19 20:00:01 enigma syslogd: restart
> Dec 20 01:00:01 enigma syslogd: restart
> Dec 20 14:29:41 enigma syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> 
> 
> * Syslogd on Ubuntu (exiting and restarting): 
> 
> Dec 19 07:35:21 localhost exiting on signal 15
> Dec 19 16:49:31 localhost syslogd 1.4.1#17ubuntu3:
> restart.
> 
> 
> taken from ossec wiki:
> http://www.ossec.net/wiki/index.php/Syslogd

Thanks very much -- I hadn't yet gotten around to checking your Wiki.

cheers - tbird