[rsyslog] rsyslog 4.6.0 (v4-stable) released

[Michael Biebl]

2010/2/25 Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com>:
>> As additional information:
>>
>> If i run
>> rsyslogd first, then xconsole, I get the failure
>> Running xconsole first, then rsyslogd, it works fine.
>>
>
> I just verified the case. I get the failure if xconsole is not active, what
> is perfectly OK IMHO (because otherwise it would block on the pipe). As soon
> as I start xconsole, everything works fine and messages are displayed in
> xconsole. When I stop xconsole I get "broken pipe" errors and if I restart it
> everything works again.
>
> So I do not see an issue. I tested on Debian lenny with all current updates
> applied.

hm, it's perfectly reproducible here.

starting rsyslogd, then xconsole, will cause xconsole to hang and no
message is written to the xconsole window.
4.4.2 did not behave that way.

See also the debug log I sent previously

Is there anything else I can do to help you debug this?

Michael
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