<div dir="ltr"><div>hmm... I think I may have a potential issue at hand, the function parse_number_with_suffix() returns its result using a long pointer, and time_reopen is just a int. Can it happen that you might use a big-endian platform where the size of a long and a int is different?<br>
<br></div>Do you have compilation warnings while compiling syslog-ng?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Tamayo, Andres <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Andres.Tamayo@viasat.com" target="_blank">Andres.Tamayo@viasat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>Hello,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p>I have found a solution to the problem (syslog-ng OSE 3.5.1 is not accepting global options) but I still do not understand what is the cause of the problem.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p>First some background information. I have built syslog-ng into a buildroot toolchain and flashed into an embedded development board. When I was prototyping my syslog-ng configuration file in the host computer, I was able to use configuration
like this:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p>time_reopen(10);<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p>However, when I started to use syslog-ng on the embedded target, the configuration previously mentioned did not work. If I included this line in my syslog-ng.conf file; syslog-ng would automatically assume time_reopen was equal to zero
and show debug messages like this one:<u></u><u></u></p><div class="">
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<p>syslog connection failed; fd=’8’, server=’AF_INET(192.168.1.10:1901)’, error=’Connection refused (146)’, time_reopen=’0’<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div><p>If I deleted that configuration line from the configuration file, syslog-ng would use its default value. This is the message I would see if the configuration line was removed:<u></u><u></u></p><div class="">
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<p>syslog connection failed; fd=’8’, server=’AF_INET(192.168.1.10:1901)’, error=’Connection refused (146)’, time_reopen=’60’<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div><p>But what if I needed to use time_reopen=10 instead.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p>Anyway, as I said in the beginning I do now know what is causing this behavior but I found a solution.....hex notation. If I use the following configuration line instead:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p>time_reopen(0xa);<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p>Then, I would see the following syslog-ng debug message:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p>syslog connection failed; fd=’8’, server=’AF_INET(192.168.1.10:1901)’, error=’Connection refused (146)’, time_reopen=’10’<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p>The same is true for the following configuration items:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p>flush_timeout<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>log_fetch_limit<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>log_iw_size<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>log_fifo_size<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>max-connections<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p>There may be other configuration items that exhibit the same behavior.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p>If anybody can explain why this is happening I would appreciate an explanation, thank you.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p>I hope this helps.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Tamayo, Andres [<a href="mailto:Andres.Tamayo@viasat.com" target="_blank">mailto:Andres.Tamayo@viasat.com</a>]
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<b>Subject:</b> [syslog-ng] syslog-ng OSE 3.5.1 is not accepting global options<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hello,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I am experiencing problems with syslog-ng OSE 3.5.1 reading the configuration file and accepting its global options. I had problems with 2 global options specified in my syslog-ng.conf
file:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">@version: 3.5<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">@include "scl.conf"</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">options<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">{<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> flush_lines(0);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> time_reopen(10);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> log_fifo_size(1000);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> use_dns(no);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> use_fqdn(yes);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> keep_hostname(no);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> keep_timestamp(yes);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> chain_hostnames(no);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">
<span style>perm</span>(0640);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> owner("root");<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> group("root");<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> create_dirs(yes);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> dir_perm(0750);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> dir_owner("root");<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> dir_group("root");<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">source s_cache
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> file("/path/to/some/file.txt", flags(no-parse));<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">destination d_network<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">{<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">
<span style>syslog</span>("192.168.1.10" port(1901) transport("<span style>tcp</span>"));<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">log<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">{<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> source(s_cache);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> destination(d_network);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">};</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The time_reopen and log_fifo_size seem to be forced to zero if I try to specify alternate values for them as shown above. If I do not include them in the configuration file,
syslog-ng uses their default values time_reopen=60 and log_fifo_size=10000.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Does anybody know what may be causing this problem? The log_fifo_size default value is OK but I need a faster time_reopen window and I cannot find a way to specify it. If
I do, syslog-ng forces it to time_reopen=0. I can tell because I get message like this when it is trying to reconnect:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Syslog connection failed; fd=’8’, server=’AF_INET(192.168.1.10:1901)’, error=’Connection refused (146)’, time_reopen=’0’</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If I remove the time_reopen(10) global option from the syslog-ng.conf file, then I get the following message when syslog-ng it is trying to reconnect:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Syslog connection failed; fd=’8’, server=’AF_INET(192.168.1.10:1901)’, error=’Connection refused (146)’, time_reopen=’60’</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please let me know if you have any questions for me.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thank you for your help.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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