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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">I used grep to filter out all the &#8220;warning&#8221; messages from the compilation logs.&nbsp; Here is what I found:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:&quot;Lucida Console&quot;">libtest/testutils.c:90: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'guint64'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:&quot;Lucida Console&quot;">libtest/testutils.c:90: warning: format '%06lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'guint64'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:&quot;Lucida Console&quot;">libtest/testutils.c:358: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:&quot;Lucida Console&quot;">lib/logmatcher.c:318: warning: implicit declaration of function 'strcasestr'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:&quot;Lucida Console&quot;">/home/algernon/zwa/work/syslog-ng-ose-3.5/syslog-ng-ose/lib/cfg-lex.l:164: warning: passing argument 2 of 'parse_number_with_suffix' from incompatible pointer type<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Lucida Console&quot;">lib/filter/filter-in-list.c:85: warning: implicit declaration of function 'getline'</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">I hope this helps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> Balazs Scheidler [mailto:bazsi77@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 07, 2014 9:14 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng OSE 3.5.1 is not accepting global options<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Do you have compilation warnings while compiling syslog-ng?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Tamayo, Andres &lt;<a href="mailto:Andres.Tamayo@viasat.com" target="_blank">Andres.Tamayo@viasat.com</a>&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>First some background information.&nbsp; I have built syslog-ng into a buildroot toolchain and flashed into an embedded development board.&nbsp; When I was prototyping my syslog-ng configuration file in the host computer, I was able to use configuration like this:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>time_reopen(10);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>However, when I started to use syslog-ng on the embedded target, the configuration previously mentioned did not work.&nbsp; 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:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>syslog connection failed; fd=&#8217;8&#8217;, server=&#8217;AF_INET(192.168.1.10:1901)&#8217;, error=&#8217;Connection refused (146)&#8217;, time_reopen=&#8217;0&#8217;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>If I deleted that configuration line from the configuration file, syslog-ng would use its default value.&nbsp; This is the message I would see if the configuration line was removed:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>syslog connection failed; fd=&#8217;8&#8217;, server=&#8217;AF_INET(192.168.1.10:1901)&#8217;, error=&#8217;Connection refused (146)&#8217;, time_reopen=&#8217;60&#8217;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>But what if I needed to use time_reopen=10 instead.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></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.&nbsp; If I use the following configuration line instead:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>time_reopen(0xa);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Then, I would see the following syslog-ng debug message:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>syslog connection failed; fd=&#8217;8&#8217;, server=&#8217;AF_INET(192.168.1.10:1901)&#8217;, error=&#8217;Connection refused (146)&#8217;, time_reopen=&#8217;10&#8217;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The same is true for the following configuration items:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>flush_timeout<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>log_fetch_limit<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>log_iw_size<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>log_fifo_size<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>max-connections<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>There may be other configuration items that exhibit the same behavior.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>If anybody can explain why this is happening I would appreciate an explanation, thank you.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I hope this helps.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> Tamayo, Andres [<a href="mailto:Andres.Tamayo@viasat.com" target="_blank">mailto:Andres.Tamayo@viasat.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 28, 2014 3:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> '<a href="mailto:syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu" target="_blank">syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu</a>'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [syslog-ng] syslog-ng OSE 3.5.1 is not accepting global options</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Hello,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">I am experiencing problems with syslog-ng OSE 3.5.1 reading the configuration file and accepting its global options.&nbsp; I had problems
 with 2 global options specified in my syslog-ng.conf file:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">@version: 3.5</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">options</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">{</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; flush_lines(0);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; time_reopen(10);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; log_fifo_size(1000);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; use_dns(no);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; use_fqdn(yes);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; keep_hostname(no);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; keep_timestamp(yes);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; chain_hostnames(no);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; perm(0640);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; owner(&quot;root&quot;);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; group(&quot;root&quot;);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; create_dirs(yes);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; dir_perm(0750);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; dir_owner(&quot;root&quot;);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; dir_group(&quot;root&quot;);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">{</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; file(&quot;/path/to/some/file.txt&quot;, flags(no-parse));</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">destination d_network</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; syslog(&quot;192.168.1.10&quot; port(1901) transport(&quot;tcp&quot;));</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; source(s_cache);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">&nbsp;&nbsp; destination(d_network);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">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.&nbsp; If I do
 not include them in the configuration file, syslog-ng uses their default values time_reopen=60 and log_fifo_size=10000.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Does anybody know what may be causing this problem?&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; If I do, syslog-ng forces it to time_reopen=0.&nbsp; I can tell because I get message like this when it is trying to reconnect:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Syslog connection failed; fd=&#8217;8&#8217;, server=&#8217;AF_INET(192.168.1.10:1901)&#8217;, error=&#8217;Connection refused (146)&#8217;, time_reopen=&#8217;0&#8217;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">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:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Syslog connection failed; fd=&#8217;8&#8217;, server=&#8217;AF_INET(192.168.1.10:1901)&#8217;, error=&#8217;Connection refused (146)&#8217;, time_reopen=&#8217;60&#8217;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Please let me know if you have any questions for me.&nbsp;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Thank you for your help.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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