logging problems - "Pipe Shut"

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Gaute Amundsen <gaute at pht.no> writes:
> We have had logging running for about a week now with no apparent
> problems, but yesterday I routed all our traffic into varnish, and now
> bad things happen.
>
> /var/log/varnish/varnish.log just stops growing after a while and a
> tail -n 1 gives me pages after pages of:
>
> Pipe Shut write(read)Pipe Shut read(read)Pipe Shut write(read)Pipe
> Shut read(read)Pipe Shut write(read)Pipe Shut read(read)Pipe Shut
> write(read)Pipe
>
> Over 4 megs of it just now actualy.

It's not a text file, so tailing it is meaningless.

Have you verified that logrotate is correctly set up?

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Senior Software Developer
Linpro AS - www.linpro.no