<p dir="ltr">Earlier syslog-ng immediately exited at startup, now it is considering dns resolution errors just like connection failures so time-reopen applies.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Time-reopen defaults to 60 seconds as I remember as well and I can't remember any patch that would have changed it.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 22, 2015 1:01 AM, "David Hauck" <<a href="mailto:davidh@netacquire.com">davidh@netacquire.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Fabien,<br>
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On Monday, June 15, 2015 7:08 AM, I wrote:<br>
> On Monday, June 15, 2015 12:50 AM Fabien Wernli wrote:<br>
>> Hi David,<br>
>><br>
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 05:09:03PM +0000, David Hauck wrote:<br>
>>> Starting syslog-ng: Error resolving hostname;<br>
>>> host='test.nacc.netacquire.dom' Error initializing message pipeline;<br>
>>><br>
>>> Unfortunately, this results in the entire process failing to start.<br>
>><br>
>> This looks a hell lot like a resolved issue [1] on github<br>
>><br>
>> [1] <a href="https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/issues/318" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/issues/318</a><br>
><br>
> Yes, indeed! And this looks to have been included in v3.6.3 - I'll give this a try.<br>
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I've finally had a chance to test this and see that it indeed fixes outright error. However, I now see the following messages appear every 10s:<br>
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20150821 15:54:37.994 err syslog(syslog-ng):Error resolving hostname; host='tester'<br>
20150821 15:54:37.994 err syslog(syslog-ng):Initiating connection failed, reconnecting; time_reopen='10'<br>
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Is there a way to change the timeout? Is this the time-reopen global option? Besides DNS lookup retries, what other operations are subject to this timeout? Finally, the default (3.7) OSE documentation indicates the time-reopen default is 60s (not 10s like I'm seeing).<br>
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Thanks,<br>
-David<br>
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