I've been busy modifying the syslogd.conf file on various servers to additionally send entries to a central syslog server. Getting syslogd to restart properly after modifying the conf file proved to be more problematic than it should be.
You'd think you'd be able to use a kill -HUP, but that's not appropriate here. You'd think you'd be able to issue a launchctl stop command, but that doesn't do it either. If you just kill it, even with a -9 flag, you'll see launchd just happily pops up a new one. That was my case, but the new syslogd wasn't actually logging.
Instead, what worked for me was to issue this command.
root# launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist; sleep 1; launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist
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Thanks!
My syslogd started using >99% proc and this worked for restarting it.
Posted by Anonymous | April 11, 2008 4:47 AM
Posted on April 11, 2008 04:47