@version: 3.26

log {

source { example-msg-generator(num(1)); };

# destination { network(localhost port(5555) transport(udp) keep-alive(no)); };

destination { syslog(localhost port(5555) transport(udp) keep-alive(no)); };

};

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Subject: [syslog-ng] restart vs reload

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Hi,

I am trying to dynamically change the output message format between RFC3164 and RFC5424.

root@localhost:~# diff /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf /root/syslog-ng.conf.bak
365c365
< network("192.168.122.1" transport("udp") ip-protocol(4) port(514)
---
> syslog("192.168.122.1" transport("udp") ip-protocol(4) port(514)

If I use: "/usr/sbin/service syslog-ng restart" it works fine, but if I use "/usr/sbin/syslog-ng-ctl reload", the message format does not change.

I am using syslog-ng version 3.19

Any thoughts?

Thanks & Regards,

Alex