Comment 26 for bug 1169740

@dave

The main problem I encountered while testing with the provided test script is that it produces false positives both with previous and -proposed versions. Sometimes, the test messages sent using "logger" makes it to /var/log/syslog after the 'grep' has gone through, identifying rsyslog as being hung while it is not. So the script is not reliable.

When using the following modified script :

#!/bin/sh

while [ 1 ]; do
  service rsyslog stop
  sleep 1
  killall -9 rsyslogd > /dev/null 2>&1
  service rsyslog start
  sleep 1
  nonce=$(date '+%s')
  logger $nonce
  sleep 1
  if grep $nonce /var/log/hourly/* > /dev/null; then
    echo found nonce $nonce
  else
    echo FAIL
    exit 1
  fi
done

The script has not reported any failure when running for > 12 hours on the current released version which does not have the fix.

My conclusion is that triggering the bug using the modified script is not possible, hence the mention in comment #24.

So both current released version and the version in -proposed have been running correctly with my modified test script so I am not able to reproduce the failure.