[rsyslog] TCP connections not being closed

[Pádraig Brady]

On 06/07/10 14:53, Kenneth Marshall wrote:
> Are you certain you are not having a problem with some
> intervening firewall/IPtables network filtering. Poorly
> configured, they can cause the TCP network stack shutdown
> to fail because they block packets that should be passed
> for a correct shutdown.

Clients and server are on the same LAN.
I've just done this on the 400+ clients:
  /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart
There were about 20 stale connections left on the server.

cheers,
Pádraig.