<p dir="ltr">Yup, its a pretty common format though not necessarily the most intuitive if you haven't seen that.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 27, 2015 9:48 PM, "craig bowser" <<a href="mailto:reswob10@gmail.com">reswob10@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Never mind.<br><br></div>For those that don't know, a coworker told me that error means the error is at line 132, column 7.<br><br></div>Thanks.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><br>Craig L Bowser<br>____________________________<br><br>This email is measured by size. Bits and bytes may have settled during transport.<br></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:30 PM, craig bowser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:reswob10@gmail.com" target="_blank">reswob10@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><br></div>Hi, I'm just learning about configuring syslog-ng. I'm using the latest version (info at end of email) and I've run into an error I can't figure out. I made a syntax error in my syslog-ng.conf that caused syslog-ng to fail to start. I corrected the error, but now when I try and start syslog-ng, it still fails.<br><br></div>trying to start it with 'service syslog-ng start' or 'service syslog-ng restart' gets me: Job for syslog-ng.service failed. See "systemctl status syslog-ng.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.<br><br></div>But the error is buried in the systemd logs. Using '/usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F' gets me the following error:<br><div><div><div><div><br>Error resolving reference; content='source', name='s_name', location='/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf:132:7'<br><br clear="all"><div><div><br></div><div>What is that file? Can I safely delete it? Why can't I make it use the new .conf file? When I try '/usr/sbin/syslog-ng -f /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf -F' I get the same error.<br></div><div><br><br>syslog-ng 3.5.6<br>Installer-Version: 3.5.6<br>Revision: 3.5.6-2 [@416d315] (Ubuntu/15.04)<br>Compile-Date: Oct 25 2014 14:14:32<br>Available-Modules: afuser,afsocket-notls,linux-kmsg-format,afprog,tfgeoip,csvparser,confgen,afamqp,json-plugin,redis,basicfuncs,afsmtp,affile,afsql,afmongodb,cryptofuncs,afsocket-tls,afsocket,syslogformat,afstomp,system-source,dbparser<br>Enable-Debug: off<br>Enable-GProf: off<br>Enable-Memtrace: off<br>Enable-IPv6: on<br>Enable-Spoof-Source: on<br>Enable-TCP-Wrapper: on<br>Enable-Linux-Caps: on<br>Enable-Pcre: on<br><br><br><br><br>Craig L Bowser<br>____________________________<br><br>This email is measured by size. Bits and bytes may have settled during transport.<br></div></div>
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