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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Dear All,<br>
<br>
Im currently configuring syslog-ng on SUSE Linux 10 SP2 to communicate with
microsoft sql server 2005.<br>
<br>
I have installed freeTds 8.0.<br>
<br>
Tested TSQL ..works fine<br>
ISQL works fine.<br>
<br>
when testing with syslog-ng<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Conf file<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>destination
d_mssql {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>sql(type(mssql)
host("ip address") port("1433")<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E1E4F2;border:none;padding:0in'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>username("sa")
password("password") database("syslogng")<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>table("test1")<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>columns("datetime
varchar(16)","host varchar(32)" ,"program
varchar(32)","pid varchar(8)","message varchar(4096)")<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>values("$R_DATE",
"$HOST", "$PROGRAM", "$PID",
"$MSGONLY")<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>indexes()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>};<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>log {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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source(src);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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destination(d_mssql);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'>};</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>I get the following error<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Note I created the table test1
manually in SQL server<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Code:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E1E4F2;border:none;padding:0in'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Jul 12 09:57:06
syslogng syslog-ng[25034]: Error running SQL query; type='freetds', host='ip
address', port='1433', user='sa', database='syslogng', error='', query='INSERT
INTO test1 (datetime, host, program, pid, message) VALUES (\'Jul 12 08:59:46\',
\'syslogng\', \'agetty\', \'25154\', \'/dev/xvc0: No such file or directory\')'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E1E4F2;border:none;padding:0in'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Jul 12 09:57:36
syslogng syslog-ng[25034]: Error opening pipe, underlying file is not a FIFO,
it should be used by file(); filename='/dev/tty10'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E1E4F2;border:none;padding:0in'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Jul 12 09:57:36
syslogng syslog-ng[25034]: Error opening file for writing;
filename='/dev/tty10', error='Illegal seek (29)'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E1E4F2;border:none;padding:0in'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Jul 12 09:59:06
syslogng syslog-ng[25034]: Error running SQL query; type='freetds', host='ip
address', port='1433', user='sa', database='syslogng', error='', query='INSERT
INTO test1 (datetime, host, program, pid, message) VALUES (\'Jul 12 08:59:46\',
\'syslogng\', \'agetty\', \'25154\', \'/dev/xvc0: No such file or directory\')'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E1E4F2;border:none;padding:0in'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Jul 12 09:59:06
syslogng syslog-ng[25034]: Error inserting message into database.
It is tried to insert 3 times, but it's failed. Message is dropped;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'><br>
Grateful if someone can help me figure out the problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'><br>
Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>KP</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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