<div dir="auto">Does the journal contain log records? E.g. list the logs using journalctl and check that records are indeed there.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If they are, I would check if syslog-ng has the necessary permissions to access them, start syslog-ng under strace and see if there are relevant failures. Check syslog-ng debug output.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 19:19 Dan Egli <dan@newideatest.site> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Okay. That does explain the error about multiple systemd-journal
sources. But the bigger issue remains untouched. Why isn't syslog
reading from the journal? I finally wound up removing systemd all
together and going back to openrc. But we we can figure out what
went wrong, then that would be much better.</p>
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<div>On 1/24/21 2:14 PM, Balazs Scheidler
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">system () automatically adds systemd-journald(),
that's why your second such source triggers the error about
duplicate sources.
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<div dir="auto">With that said, why syslog-ng doesn't get
messages from systems is a a different issue.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 24, 2021, 08:07
Dan Egli <a href="mailto:dan@newideatest.site" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><dan@newideatest.site></a> wrote:<br>
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<p>I'm trying to setup syslog-ng on a systemd system. But
even though I have several things writing to syslog,
syslog-ng doesn't write ANYTHING to the /var/log/messages
except kernel messages and it's own info. So I searched
around, and found the systemd-journal() source. So I tried
it. And I get an error that says syslog-ng can't
initialize the logger plugin:</p>
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<pre># syslog-ng -F
[2021-01-23T23:25:36.525097] The configuration must not contain more than one systemd-journal() source;
[2021-01-23T23:25:36.525157] Error initializing journal_reader;
[2021-01-23T23:25:36.525173] Error initializing message pipeline; plugin_name='systemd-journal', location='/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf:26:5'
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Here's the config, basically copied from the <a href="http://syslog-ng.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">syslog-ng.com</a>
page:<br>
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<pre>@version: 3.26
#
# Syslog-ng default configuration file for Gentoo Linux
# <a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/426814" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.gentoo.org/426814</a>
@include "scl.conf"
options {
threaded(yes);
chain_hostnames(no);
stats_freq(43200);
mark_freq(3600);
};
source s_journald {
systemd-journal(prefix(".SDATA.journald."));
};
source src { system(); internal(); file("/proc/kmsg"); };
destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); };
destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };
log { source(src); destination(messages); };
log { source(s_journald); destination(messages); };
log { source(src); destination(console_all); };</pre>
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What am I doing wrong? I am POSITIVE things are sending to
the syslog sub-system. I have ensured several programs have
sent something. But without the systemd-journal line
syslog-ng loads fine, recording /proc/kmsg and syslog-ng
messages but nothing else.<br>
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I am completely stumped here. <br>
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