sysutils/syslog-ng3 processes

[Alexey Shuvaev]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 04:51:25PM +0200, Marin Atanasov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've noticed that when I start syslog-ng3 daemon it starts two processes. I
> haven't seen this when running syslog-ng.
> 
> Here are the processes:
> 
> root     554  0.0  0.1  5320  2092  ??  I     4:46PM   0:00.00
> /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -p /var/run/syslog.pid
> root     555  0.0  0.1  5320  2456  ??  Ss    4:46PM   0:00.02
> /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -p /var/run/syslog.pid
> 
> I was wondering why it actually start two (identical?) processes? Anyone has
> an idea? Is this normal?
> 
I think this would happen if you have two different scripts in
/usr/local/etr/rc.d that launch the same daemon. I think the names
of the scripts do not matter here. Do you have any stale rc.d scripts
in /usr/local/etr/rc.d?

HTH,
Alexey.