Troy Davis

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Part of this may be possible with the existing IO appender and [remote_syslog_logger](https://github.com/papertrail/remote_syslog_logger). It was written for Papertrail so it uses syslog framing, but has the guts of a UDP...

Good idea. I can definitely see value to it. Any interest in implementing it?

Cool, thanks @gmcinnes. I'll leave this open; if anyone else wants to jump on it, feel free, and if not, we'll prioritize alongside other improvements.

Just a note that we're sitting on this while gradually making progress with other issues. If anyone is inclined to commit a test suite able to test signal handling, that...

It looks like many (most?) init scripts have this problem. [Here's](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24416902/how-to-set-exit-codes-for-status-command-in-init-script-for-tomcat6) another example, and [a bunch more](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22service+status%22+returns&oq=%22service+status%22+returns&aqs=chrome..69i57.3263j0j1&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8) on Google. If you run across a chef-independent description of expected `status` behavior,...

That seems logical to me. I don't think remote_syslog2 is currently using godaemon to handle any signals, but the capability seems to exist.

@QuinnyPig: totally agree and on our radar to change. If you happen to get to it first, pull requests are gratefully accepted (and this one would be reviewed and merged...

This special-case is due to http://blog.papertrailapp.com/logs-papertrailapp-com-tls-ssl-cert-will-change-january-27/ ("Why is this necessary?"), and actually is specific to only the logs.papertrailapp.com hostname, not other destination hostnames. It's an artifact of a mistake I...