> > > > elogd continues to run after a SIGHUP. If a second SIGHUP is received the daemon terminates.
> > > > This was observed on Solaris 10 (SPARC).
> > > > The documentation states that elogd should re-read configuration after receiving SIGHUP.
> > > 
> > > I tried to reproduce this but without success. I could send many SIGHUPs without the daemon terminating. Maybe 
> > > you modified the configuration file in between and elogd barked out because of some wrong configuration? Try to 
> > > start the daemon interactively and see what exactly happens if you send several SIGHUPs.
> > 
> > The problem is that under Solaris signal handlers installed via signal() get uninstalled *before* the signal handler
> > is called.  Thus the second time elogd receives a SIGHUP, you get the default action, which is to kill the process.
> > 
> > The solution is to use the POSIX sigaction() call instead of signal(). 
> 
> Can you try to modify the signal() calls into sigaction(). If this really works under Solaris, I will incorporate this 
> then into the distribution.

Here is the patch.  It works under both Solaris and Linux.