<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I just installed syslog-ng on a Solaris 9 (SPARC) server. It will not log anything to the console nor to /var/adm/messages. Does anyone have any idea of what I am doing wrong?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>No existing syslog processes are running, I killed them and stopped them from start on reboot. I can not reboot this server now, it is something that has to remain up and running.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The service is running:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV># ps -ef|grep syslog-ng</DIV><DIV> root 29422 29002 0 17:33:14 pts/3 0:00 grep syslog-ng</DIV><DIV> root 29364 1 0 17:27:44 ? 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -f /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf -p /etc/syslog-ng/sy</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My /var/run/syslog_door file exists:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV># ls -la /var/run/syslog_door </DIV><DIV>Drw-r--r-- 1 root other 0 Jul 25 16:49 /var/run/syslog_door</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The contents of my syslog-ng.conf file:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV># syslog-ng configuration file.</DIV><DIV># See syslog-ng(8) and syslog-ng.conf(5) for more information.</DIV><DIV>#</DIV><DIV># 20070727 <A href="mailto:rsavage@nuvox.net">rsavage@nuvox.net</A> </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>options { sync (1);</DIV><DIV> time_reopen (10);</DIV><DIV> log_msg_size(8192);</DIV><DIV> log_fifo_size(2048); </DIV><DIV> long_hostnames (off);</DIV><DIV> use_dns (no);</DIV><DIV> use_fqdn (no);</DIV><DIV> create_dirs (no);</DIV><DIV> keep_hostname (yes);</DIV><DIV> stats(3600);</DIV><DIV> mark_freq(1);</DIV><DIV> };</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>source s_sys { internal(); sun-streams ("/dev/log" door("/var/run/syslog_door")); };</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>destination d_cons { file("/dev/console"); };</DIV><DIV>destination d_mesg { file("/var/adm/messages"); };</DIV><DIV>destination d_mail { file("/var/log/syslog"); };</DIV><DIV>destination d_auth { file("/var/log/authlog"); };</DIV><DIV>destination d_mlop { usertty("operator"); };</DIV><DIV>destination d_mlrt { usertty("root"); };</DIV><DIV>destination d_mlal { usertty("*"); };</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>filter f_filter1 { level(err) or</DIV><DIV> (level(notice) and facility (auth, kern)); };</DIV><DIV>filter f_filter2 { level(err) or</DIV><DIV> (facility(kern) and level(notice)) or</DIV><DIV> (facility(daemon) and level(notice)) or</DIV><DIV> (facility(mail) and level(crit)); };</DIV><DIV>filter f_filter3 { level(alert) or</DIV><DIV> (facility(kern) and level(err)) or</DIV><DIV> (facility(daemon) and level(err)); };</DIV><DIV>filter f_filter4 { level(alert); };</DIV><DIV>filter f_filter5 { level(emerg); };</DIV><DIV>filter f_filter6 { facility(kern) and level(notice); };</DIV><DIV>filter f_filter7 { facility(mail) and level(debug); };</DIV><DIV>filter f_filter8 { facility(user) and level(err); };</DIV><DIV>filter f_filter9 { facility(user) and level(alert); };</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter1); destination(d_cons); };</DIV><DIV>log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter2); destination(d_mesg); };</DIV><DIV>log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter3); destination(d_mlop); };</DIV><DIV>log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter4); destination(d_mlrt); };</DIV><DIV>log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter5); destination(d_mlal); };</DIV><DIV>log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter6); destination(d_auth); };</DIV><DIV>log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter7); destination(d_mail); };</DIV><DIV>log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter8); destination(d_cons);</DIV><DIV> destination(d_mesg); };</DIV><DIV>log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter9); destination(d_mlop);</DIV><DIV> destination(d_mlrt); };</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; 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