syslog(3) and truncated messages.

Ian Lepore ian at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 13 01:06:19 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 23:00 +0100, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote:
> I have a daemon (namely ctld(8)) that, when running with debug enabled,
> outputs a lot of information to the syslog, using the usual syslog(3) API.
> Problem is, the output gets truncated: at some point the log messages
> from all involved processes stop getting logged, even though the processes
> continue to run, confirmed by subsequent kernel messages, which get logged
> properly.
> 
> Any idea what might be going on?
> 

It turns out I had newer patches that did apply cleanly for this, so I
committed them as r258076 and r258077 (since they really addressed two
completely separate items).

Hopefully this will fix the glitches you're seeing.

-- Ian




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