[syslog-ng] Error parsing conf file?

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Thu Jun 30 11:15:50 CEST 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:07 +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 09:46 -0600, Zb Indelak wrote:

> > *** Problems start here ***
> > syslog-ng 1651 root   82w   REG    8,8    489 5216302 /var/nsm/inbox/router/cisco/ios/12.0/syslog/ios-06280843
> > syslog-ng 1651 root   83w   REG    8,8    489 5216302 /var/nsm/inbox/router/cisco/ios/12.0/syslog/ios-06280843
> > [root at simda02 NSM]# ps -ef|grep syslog
> > root      1651     1  0 15:36 ?        00:00:01 ./syslog-ng -f /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
> > root      1682  1508  0 15:39 pts/2    00:00:00 grep syslog
> > [root at simda02 NSM]# kill -9 1651
> > [root at simda02 NSM]# echo;date;lsof +d /var/nsm/inbox/router/cisco/ios/12.0/syslog
> > 
> 
> This seems to be an unrelated issue that it opens the same file multiple
> times. This is no good. I'll look into this as well.
> 

I don't really see how syslog-ng could open the same file twice, unless
you had multiple file() destinations which refers to the same file. Is
it the case? (judging your posted configuration, it is not, but maybe
you did not copy-paste your complete config.

-- 
Bazsi



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