Re: [Devmon] Solution for the purple issue?

[Buchan M. <bg...@st...>]

On Monday 05 January 2009 17:13:25 Thomas Kähn wrote:
> Hi Buchan,
>
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:42:01PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> > On Monday 29 December 2008 13:46:30 Buchan Milne wrote:
> > > Re-sending my mail from 2008-12-08 that didn't make it to the list ....
> >
> > I've been running with this patch on the two affected RHEL4 boxes, and I
> > have noticed that devmon was killed at some stage by a logrotate script
> > that was calling '/etc/init.d/devmon restart'. On the box running RHEL5,
> > it was calling '/etc/init.d/devmon condrestart' which is not a possible
> > argument (explaining why it was not affected, if this was indeed the
> > problem).
>
> log rotation might be an additional issue. However we are running devmon
> on several Debian based systems and I haven't configured log rotation
> yet. However the purple issue occured, too.

Thanks for confirming I should keep looking.

> Let's see if running in debug mode gives a hint on the reason. Up to now
> it is running fine in debug mode.

Let's hope it turns up something.

Regards,
Buchan