Ubuntu
rsyslog package

  1. Bug #940030
  2. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 940030

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e b (tehmoon) wrote :

Hi,

I don't know if it can help but I've a similar bug which involves restarting Rsyslog.
I use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64bits with Rsyslog 8.16-0-1ubuntu3 on two kind of hardware:

  - docker-machine
  - AWS EC2

I noticed that on servers that don't use systemd -- in this case docker-machine -- using the sysV init script doesn't work.

The reason:

L 54 start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON

If you remove the --quiet:
 /etc/init.d/rsyslog stop
 * Stopping enhanced syslogd rsyslogd
No /usr/sbin/rsyslogd found running; none killed.
   ...done.

Then if you remove --exec $DAEMON it works.

I have the same behavior when I use the init script on a systemd based ubuntu. But the systemd job seems to work fine.

And of course, /etc/init.d/rsyslog rotate doesn't work either.

I'm currently debating with my self on how I'm going to handle that..