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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9931.0. "syslogd: exiting on signal 15" by BACHUS::CUYT () Fri May 23 1997 06:31

    
    I noticed already on several DUnix V4.0B systems that the syslogd
    was disappeared. The message related to this exit of syslogd, found
    in syslog.log in /var/adm/syslog.dated is the following :
    
    May 22 13:01:36 nlrh02 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
    
    Any idea ??
    
    
    Dany
    
    
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9931.1also /var/adm/syslog.dated deletedBACHUS::CUYTMon May 26 1997 11:507
    
    I also noticed already that from time to time not only syslogd has
    disappeared, but also all directories in /var/adm/syslog.dated
    
    Any ideas ???
    Dany
    
9931.2SMURF::MAJESKETue May 27 1997 12:063
    man signal.4 shows that signal 15 is SIGTERM - Software termination
    signal.  Is it possible that someone on your system is deliberately
    stopping syslogd and deleting the directories?
9931.3cron removes dirs automaticallyNNTPD::"[email protected]"Brian HaleyTue May 27 1997 15:2513
Hi,

root's crontab entry automatically removes "old" directories:

40 4 * * * find /var/adm/syslog.dated -depth -type d -ctime +5 -exec rm -rf {}
\;

You should comment out the line if you want to keep everything forever, just
remember you did this in case your disk starts to get full and you wonder
why :-)

-Brian
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9931.4suspect crontab entryBACHUS::CUYTThu May 29 1997 07:127
    
    Thanks for your replies, but I suspect the entry in the crontab, as
    mentioned in .3, from doing what I see. I already noticed that
    syslogd and /var/adm/syslog.dated were disappeared.
    
    Dany